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Word: squashings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, they come about as close as possible to collective fulfillment of the American dream. More than half report incomes exceeding $50,000 annually, 13.8 per cent earn more than $100,000. The class reflects current trends in upper middle class living. Jogging, tennis and squash are the favorite sports, but apparently they are not favored with quite enough dedication: 41 per cent said they were overweight by more than five pounds. The class clearly believes in hard work, with 57 per cent putting in more than 50 hours per week--nearly 40 per cent never wish to retire...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: 25 Years of Over-Achieving | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...some 300 million years, the cockroach has survived the ravages of nature and, lately, the best efforts of man to squash it, spray it or bug-bomb it into extinction. Some 3,600 species of the hardy creature thrive in a variety of habitats all over the world. Now one of the most common species in the U.S., Periplaneta americana, or the American cockroach,* may be hit by a blow below the belt: scientists have synthesized periplanone B, a chemical that acts as one of the female roaches' essences d'amour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sexy Strategy | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...will make the first donation to the Harvard Space Ship Fund? John M. Barnaby '32 Squash and Tennis Coach--retired

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...Up and Away | 5/9/1979 | See Source »

...aromatic celery, heung kuhn -all valuable for good wokmanship. A Japanese melon called Honey Drip is described by its originators as "intolerably delicious." Vegetable growers, generally a conservative lot, have been slow to pick up on an unusual variety called vegetable spaghetti: it is a member of the squash family that, when opened up, yields oodles of non-noodles that can be prepared exactly like pasta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Succulent New Vegetables | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

There are several novelty strains of sweet corn, notably "candy stick," which is only one inch thick but a foot long and is ideal for freezing; other innovations include the first bush-type butternut squash and a tomato, Long-Keeper, that stays fresh up to four months after picking. The redoubtable Burpee catalogue alone offers such enticements as the spacemaster cucumber, a pumpkin whose seeds can be eaten raw, and Sugar Bush watermelon, which represent years of genetic selection not only for flavor but -more important to the home gardener -for compact growth in a limited space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Succulent New Vegetables | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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