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Word: asse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Many of the students made sarcastic remarks about the oldsters' politics. But one student porter, carting luggage, souvenir wastebaskets, and straw hats to the dorins where reunionites are staying, said "The conservatives are a pain in the ass to listen to but they tip bigger than anyone else. The ones with big families are the worst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Get To Harvard For Reunion | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

...from planting newspaper items knocking Dann's efforts to "improve television." Well aware that Dann was a past master at using the press in the rating game, Goodman had no sympathy. "Mike," he said, "you've created a monster, and now it's biting your ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dann v. Klein: The Best Game in Town | 5/25/1970 | See Source »

...dedication "To Dick and Gloria Dorspn-Motif No. D132." Professor Dorson is director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University, and D132 refers to a unit of classification-the motif-used by folklorists in breaking down tales into component parts for analysis. Motif No. D132 is "transformation man to ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 18, 1970 | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

This country is so fat and lazy that it can only get off its ass when someone is killed. It took the death of three civil rights workers in Mississippi and countless Panthers to make anyone think about black people. It took the death of three civil-rights workpants in Ohio to make people think about the war. It will probably take more deaths to make anyone do anything about either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senators and Gasmsks | 5/13/1970 | See Source »

...left or to the right of you doesn't mean he's a pig or a counterrevolutionary," he argued. Abbie Hoffman drew shouts of "Right on!" when he declared that "if the U.S. has lost face in Viet Nam, it is going to lose its ass in Cambodia." He could hardly be taken literally when he also vowed: "If they find Bobby, Erica and the Panthers guilty, we're going to pick up that building [the courthouse] and send it to the moon." Even Panther Miranda declared that it was not a time "to kill pigs. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Protest Season on the Campus | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

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