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Word: asses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the night? I like the night because I can act the way I always act--which is a little bit crazy--and people accept it. Even preppies aren't put off, the way they would be at a lunch table. Yeah, even tight-ass people. At night, people are more laid back. So I feel there are actually people who belong to my race. During the day, I feel like I'm from another race...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: A Long Night's Journey Into Day | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

...dialogue. The flavor of A Texas Trilogy is finally the flavor of its speech -the drawling, lip-smacking pleasure of one drinker saying of another, "Hell, Skip wouldn't pass up a drink if he had to squeeze it out of an armadillo's ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH - THEATER: TexasTripIe Play | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...mouth. Women who attend Gallwey's classes have no trouble recognizing the angry voice of Self 1: it is their husband. They are poor Self 2. Such descriptive phrases as "cow," "fat banana" and "pregnant elephant" can be heard on the most elegant courts. "Move your ass" appears to be a not infrequent admonition?not to mention a stream of not so sotto voce expletives, four-letter words and hectoring commands: "Run! Run!" "Hit the ball. Hit the ball!" "Up! Up!" and, maddeningly above all for women partners, "Outta the way! I got it! I got it!" Even where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Sex& Tennis | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...Good Morning America, had nevertheless steered clear of would-be lovers, she insisted. "He knows that I would be very tough on anyone like that." How tough? "I'd just smack the hell out of her, pull her hair out, kick her in the ass and throw her out the door. It would be very simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Religion, Sep. 6, 1976 | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...South America, such aliases as El Aleman (the German), Cara de Culebra (Snake Face) and El Carnicero (the Butcher) are common. One particularly brutal torturer at Chile's Tejas Verdes camp near San Antonio used to tell prisoners his name was Pata en la Raja, meaning Kick in the Ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Macabre World of Words and Ritual | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

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