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Word: tailing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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When all the Distresses of student Life had been successfully reduced to Variants of these two Words, a new program Card was introduced. Depending which End of this Card, punched to outline the Shape of a Crocodile with a Bludgeon Tail, fed first into the Computer, an answer hummed back appropriate to the desired Response. Organization was thus considerably further streamlined...

Author: By Algernon Mews, | Title: A Tale of Dissent | 1/23/1970 | See Source »

...CURIOUS Beast might have been a Chimera, Except that the Head and skinny Neck, and great, drooping Tail of a Cock, were affixed to the Body of an Ass. Flopping at either Flank was a huge, Sludge-colored Wing, from the Tip of each of which grew a small Talon, causing great Mystery. Each hoof was a giant Talon grappling the Floor...

Author: By Algernon Mews, | Title: A Tale of Dissent | 1/23/1970 | See Source »

...guts and the spasms of his enormous fatal tail...

Author: By Katha Pollitt, | Title: Moving a House | 1/21/1970 | See Source »

...pony tail hangin' down...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Classical Music Sha Na Na Is Here | 1/15/1970 | See Source »

...when A Boy Named Charlie Brown sticks to a boy named Charlie Brown, it becomes a good deed in a naughty world, bright, nonviolent and equipped with an animated moral, the way Snoopy is equipped with a tail. Charlie loses the National Spelling Bee and slinks back to town, looking for all the world like an extinguished light bulb. And behold!-life goes on. In spite of failure and humiliation, observes the prescient Linus, "the world didn't come to an end." It is a message that should not be missed by sensitive children. Neither should the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Conquering Zero | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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