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Word: asses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Junior high was a pain in the ass. They had me doing solid geometry, or algebra, and third-year Latin was not pleasurable. See, I had no father. My father died when I was young so I had no iron discipline as a teenager, and when I became a teenager, my mother became a pushover...

Author: By David A. Demilo and Susan C. Faludi, S | Title: George Carlin's Coming of Age | 7/25/1978 | See Source »

Well, the all-star break is over, the American League choked again, and it's back to business as usual for the major-league leading Red Sox. This weekend, the Sox will attempt to demolish some Western Division teams, having kicked ass in the East for the past month. The Texas Rangers will be in town tonight, followed by the Minnesota Twins on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Sunday's game will be on Channel 38, we think, at 2. buit since the Twins, with the exception of Rod Carew, are so bad, this might be your best shot at actually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS | 7/14/1978 | See Source »

...together the financing and did the casting jointly with me. Warren is a great fighter. Warner Bros, didn't like Bonnie and Clyde and released it poorly. Warren got in there and reorganized the advertising and the release pattern. He made himself a real pain in the ass to the people at Warner's. 'Why do we have to deal with this good-looking actor?' was their attitude. People didn't recognize him as the superior businessman he is. They do now. The results of his efforts were absolutely electrifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warren Beatty Strikes Again | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...year-old father of Proposition 13, basking in his first victory in a lifetime of attacking free-spending public officials, is no Frankenstein, but is a self-defined "pain in the ass. You gotta be to get these people to listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sound and Fury over Taxes | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...Rowe: "He was rough and he was tough and he was ambitious as hell." Says Jack Valenti, a former Johnson aide: "Joe recognized that the Government is a great shaggy beast that sometimes hunkers down in the middle of the roadway. You have to kick it in the ass once in a while or it gets lethargic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Love This Job! | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

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