Word: winn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mont 10 1.93 5-3-1 Malarchuk, Buff 6 2.14 3-2-1 McLean, Vanc 11 2.31 8-2-1 Casey, Minn 8 2.39 5-3-0 Whitmore, Hart 9 2.42 5-3-1 Joseph, St. L 7 2.54 2-13 Essensa, Winn 5 2.73 3-1-1 Vernon, Calg 10 2.88 6-3-1 Delguidice, Bost 4 2.91 0-2-1 Beauregard, Winn 5 2.96 2-2-1 V'biesbrouck, NYR 7 3.00 4-3-0 Ing, Edm 3 3.04 0-2-0 Terreri, NJ 11 3.11 7-4-0 Liut, Wash 8 3.13 5-2-0 Reese, Toro...
...have watched 5,000 hours of TV by the time he enters first grade and 19,000 hours by the end of high school -- more time than he will spend in class. This dismayingly passive experience crowds out other, more active endeavors: playing outdoors, being with friends, reading. Marie Winn, author of the 1977 book The Plug-In Drug, gave a memorable, if rather alarmist, description of the trancelike state TV induces: "The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed and hangs open slightly; the tongue rests on the front teeth (if there are any). The eyes...