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Word: slided (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spent her time eating, crawling aound the floor, chewing on various things, wetting her diaper, and sleeping. The two-and-a-half-year old never sat still. She either wanted to go to the playground, draw pictures, or play on the computer. At the playground, I slid down the slide with her, and told her not to cry when her doll got dizzy...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Part-Time Mother | 3/22/1984 | See Source »

...chapter on Freud in Paris is largely conjecture, based mostly on vague circumstancial evidence about medical activities in late 19th century France. In a passage indicative of the thin ice his assumptions slide on, Masson admits that, "although we cannot prove, in the strict sense of the word, that Freud, too, witnessed such autopsies, it seems very probable that...

Author: By Simon J. Frankel, | Title: Freud Revised | 3/14/1984 | See Source »

...only two days. Losing her cool, she abandons the car in a vacant lot and departs amidst exaggerated paranoia, fearing that the rental agency will have her apprehended before she leaves. Back in the States, in the third and final section, "Home," we return to Kate's rambling mental slide show which still lacks a story...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: In the Dark | 3/13/1984 | See Source »

...performing in a mediocre manner when earnings were as expected. They performed poorly when earnings were only modestly below target. And they have been devastated when profits were significantly off the mark." Even IBM, despite record 1983 income and good prospects for this year, has seen its stock value slide. While IBM stood at 134¼ last Oct. 10, it closed last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Bull Market Over? | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...turn of the century, Back Bay was all genteel opulence and social superiority, magnificently expressed by Henry Hobson Richardson's Trinity Church and McKim, Mead & White's public library on Copley Square. In the 1950s the area began to slide into a comfortable shabbiness. Most of the grand houses were converted into private schools, dormitories and offices, or divided into small apartments and rooming houses. Shops proliferated. In 1965 the clumsy 52-story-high Prudential Center rose incongruously on Boylston Street. It was followed by the 60-story mirror-glass John Hancock tower and other tall buildings. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Shaped by Bostonian Civility | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

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