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Word: cribbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...illustrate her son's highly independentspirit. "As a baby I remember one time he woke meat three in the morning and I went to get him abottle of milk so he would shut up," she recalls."But when I gave him the bottle he threw it out ofthe crib and said, `I want chocolate milk...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: A Tale of Two Actors | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

...much difficulty and were taken to Lev Fabricant's home. Lev opened the door of his home, greeted us with "shalom," and quickly introduced us to his wife Olga, and their two children, Eli and Leah. In their living room, decorated with a couch, a few chairs and a crib, we spoke...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: A Midwinter's Journey to the Soviet Union | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

...groups, business groups galore, veterans, tobacco, cotton, dairy, soybean, wheat and other farmers and land speculators. When "social power" was the mechanism of affirmatively targeting benefits (during, say, the era of middle class an upper class WASP hegemony from 1860-1920), this was essentially "politics by other means" to crib Clausewitz...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Affirmative Action | 2/2/1985 | See Source »

...already stated that the controversial missile, which would cost $20 billion to $30 billion, is dead. The bill for Star Wars, now in the earliest stages of research, will not come due for many years, but some Congressmen are threatening to strangle this Reagan-policy brainchild in the crib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Hopes, Hard Choices | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

Except for the gauze-covered wound stretching almost the length of her torso, the tiny, dark-haired baby girl might have been just any infant. Lying in her crib with a pacifier close at hand, she gave a couple of gaping yawns. She delicately stretched her scrawny arms in weariness. And mostly she slept. But last week, as television viewers got their first glimpse of the newborn known only as Baby Fae, it was her visibly heaving chest that stole the show. There was no mistaking the pulsations of life and no forgetting that the power source was the freshly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby Fae Stuns the World | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

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