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Word: pigged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disk, burp when it ejects a disk or bark when it launches a program. Soon after it was released, a lively trade sprang up at user-group meetings for bootleg sounds tape-recorded from the TV and digitized in home computers, from Bart Simpson saying, "Thanks, man" to Porky Pig stuttering, "That's all, folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Booms, Boings and Wisecracks | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...governed state can ever be founded in Russia that is not based on a uniquely Russian understanding of injustice. As a popular maxim puts it, if a Russian peasant discovers that his neighbor has two pigs and he has only one, he would rather see his neighbor's extra pig slaughtered than raise a second one of his own. Such crude but firmly ingrained egalitarian ideas predate communism. They help explain why the average Russian is so suspicious of the new breed of street entrepreneur who hawks everything from bathtub fixtures to brassieres on city sidewalks. He welcomes the sudden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture: A Mind of Their Own | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

Here we find only Matt Dillons, Bridget Fondas, and similarly nubile and sexy twentysomethings. We may never sport such beauty, but we relate to these characters because they veg and stress and pig out in front of the tv, like we're all supposed...

Author: By Marc D. Zelanko, | Title: Sexy, Spunky and Single | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

...rounding up wild does at the National Zoo's research center in Front Royal, Virginia, and inoculating them with what amounts to an antipregnancy vaccine. Developed by Kirkpatrick and two other scientists, the technique, known as immunocontraception, involves injecting a protein extracted from the reproductive system of a pig. In making antibodies to attack the foreign pig protein, the deer's immune system also attacks the doe's own, very similar protein. The result is temporary sterility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Planning Reaches the Forest | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...annual meeting, held this year in Beverly Hills' Regent Beverly Wilshire, had more than financial statements on their minds. Police representatives and other critics blasted the company for releasing black rapper Ice-T's Body Count album and its Cop Killer cut, which contains such lines as "Die Pig, Die!" During the five- hour session, actor Charlton Heston denounced Time Warner for, among other things, shipping the compact discs to radio stations in miniature body bags. (A company spokesman said the bags were in keeping with the theme of the album, which includes cuts warning about the dangers of drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fire And Ice-T | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

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