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Word: preteen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their daughters, Jennifer, 10, and Amy Jo, 8, is manageable, but has drawbacks. "Carting possessions around is tough," says Barbara. "Suitcases, nighttime animals, half an outfit here, half there-no steady routine. The girls have to share one bedroom at both houses and they're reaching that preteen age of privacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: One Child, Two Homes | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...about your story on Shaun Cassidy [Feb. 27] is: You made it seem that the only fans Shaun has are under the age of 14. Well, I scream for Shaun. I also hang posters of him up on the walls of my bedroom, but I'm not a "preteen" or a "just-teen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1978 | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...show. (The cops are known as Chippies to California motorists, but NBC quickly saw the problem with that title.) Daniel Boone is back, or rather Young Dan'l Boone. This time he is 25 years old and accompanied by a runaway slave and preteen sidekick on his wilderness walks for CBS. For long-neglected horse opera fans, Rod Taylor will bit The Oregon Trail as a pioneer plodding west for NBC, Big Hawaii will go even farther west on NBC-to Paradise Ranch, where a cantankerous family of cattle ranchers haggle over their island Ponderosa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Some Old, Some New, a Lot Borrowed, a Little Blue | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...ironic that TIME reported on the sex murders of the children in Detroit and the increasing trend toward child pornography-then in People printed the picture of an eleven-year-old girl, Brooke Shields, posing in a pink slip and lipstick, telling about her newest movie role as a preteen prostitute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 25, 1977 | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

Lollitots magazine is one of the milder examples. It features preteen girls showing off their genitals in the gynecological style popularized by Penthouse and Playboy. Other periodicals, with names such as Naughty Horny Imps, Children-Love and Child Discipline, portray moppets in sex acts with adults or other kids. The films are even raunchier. An 8-mm. movie shows a ten-year-old girl and her eight-year-old brother in fellatio and intercourse. In another film, members of a bike gang break into a church during a First Communion service and rape six little girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Child's Garden of Perversity | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

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