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Word: pumpkins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been punished for his sins at the precise point of origin." She could not resist communicating the dictum that was pronounced upon Charles by Ninon de 1'Enclos, the celebrated courtesan: "His soul is made of mush, his body of wet paper and his heart is like a pumpkin fricasseed in snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Correspondent | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

...pumpkin vine phone is a ten party line. When you want to use it you have to take down the receiver and listen while some good sister tells some other good sister, who is not so wise, how to make butter or how to raise chickens or when it is the right time in the moon to plant onion sets or something else equally important. . . if someone would invent a contraption to shut out the other nine when a person wanted to use the tenth he would be richer and more famous than Edison. But he'd be forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truman: I Gave Them an Earful | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...this new project, Smilgis had a long afternoon of conversation with Spielberg at his beach house just north of Malibu. Says she: "Steven made me a great lunch. His mother sent over curried chicken, and he supplied salmon, tuna fish, fresh fruit salad and his own specialty, freshly baked pumpkin bread. Food is his hobby." Smilgis' assignments are not always so appealing. As part of covering her beat in Los Angeles, she screens an average of two films a week and is not moved by many of them. But after viewing E.T., she was moved to say: "This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: May 31, 1982 | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

...turns into a pumpkin at midnight. The guests are too busy devouring an early breakfast and gyrating to the White Animals. By state law, the booze has to stop flowing at 2. It does, and Fitch calls it a night. But the White Animals continue, and so do the revelers. At 4 a.m., the remaining stalwarts head off to various homes for a nightcap. For Mimi, it has been a "very quick fairy tale." She has even less time to savor it. At 11:30, there will be a luncheon in her honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Dallas: Mimi Makes Her Debut | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...holiday and ate until her skirt was far too snug for comfort and her body was crying out for an afternoon nap. Unlike the rest of her family, however, after consuming a heaping plate of turkey, stuffing, gravy, sweet potatoes, green beans, and hefty chunks of pecan pie and pumpkin pie topped with vanilla ice cream, Joan did not stop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Living to Eat | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

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