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Word: pound (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Merle Haggard into the tapedeck, pound your fist and sing along: "Take me back to Tulsa, I'm too young to marry. Take me back to Tulsa, I'm too young to wed thee." For some reason you start thinking about your girlfriend's neck. You've been singing along, having a good ole time, then you start to cry just thinking about your girlfriend's neck. "Her neck," you sob, flipping on the wipers. "Oh, man! I miss her...lousy...n-neck...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: The Shepard Zone | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

...Monday--Registrar Margaret E. Law decides to bring in some additional bucks for Harvard by opening up the College's registration packets to advertisers. Several Harvard students suffer heart attacks as they try to lug their 89-pound envelopes to the red dot room. Law refuses comment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Banner Year | 1/6/1986 | See Source »

Graves' poetry was more austere and subdued. He took no part in the stylistic revolution launched by T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. His poems stubbornly scanned and usually rhymed. In The White Goddess (1948), he built a huge edifice of eccentric scholarship to prove a personal point: poetry arose in the worship of the Ur-Female and could only be brought back to life by returning to this adoration. That was his lifelong mission, and his love poems praised both joy and sorrow: "Take your delight in momentariness,/ Walk between dark and dark--a shining space/ With the grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Legacy of a Cranky Colossus | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

Here's some crucial Christmas advice, kids: Don't let Mom and Dad sneak off to the toy stores until they've done their homework. It's a jungle out there, full of Thundercats and Sectaurs, Pound Puppies and Glo Worms, GoBots and Transformers--in short, no place for the innocent. What could be more embarrassing than to have the old folks, however well intentioned, come home with the wrong stuff! Remember what happened when you sent them shopping for video games a few years ago, and they returned with an Etch-A-Sketch? What they need is at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of the Fun Factories | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...toys are warriors. The success of Kenner's cuddly Care Bears has prompted a toymaking rush to stuffed animals. The friskiest new critters in sales are Pound Puppies, a breed of soft, sad-eyed and bewrinkled hounds packaged in kennel-shaped carrying cases. They come in 80 different patterns of brown, tan, gray and white, and are meant to be "adopted," like Cabbage Patch Kids. The youngster who gets one can send to the manufacturer, Tonka, for a dog tag and ownership papers. Minnesota-based Tonka, which is diversifying from its traditional line of sturdy toy trucks, expects to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of the Fun Factories | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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