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Word: squeal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wants financial advice from a flounder? I go to the playground after the market closes, and the other kids make fun of me. "How's your Nike?" they laugh, knowing I shorted it at 70, betting it would go down. (It's 89.) "How's ol' Crappy?" they squeal, referring by nickname to a small auto- parts rebuilder I started buying at 7. I bought more last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Sleepy, Dopey, Crashful & Co. | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

...might call it buying a pig in a poke. Fifteen months ago, Ronald and Mary Kalish of Arizona adopted Sir Francis Bacon (Frank, for short) as a pet, and their life has never been quite the same. After supper, when the family gathers around the TV, Frank will squeal and howl if the channel is switched from his favored westerns or cartoons. Come bedtime, there is only one place where he will sleep: on the Kalishes' king-size mattress, snuggled between Mary and Ronald. If reproved, Frank may try to urinate on the offender's foot. Yet, far from feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: This Little Piggy Ate Roast Beef | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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