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Word: asses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head. A lot depends on the guest hosts who change each week and around whom an entire show is written. Among the first tapped by Michaels were Comedian George Carlin and Actor Rob Reiner. Says Reiner: "I didn't care if the show fell flat on its ass. TV needed it." He adds: "It's like an express train that no one can stop. You just have to hop aboard and hope it won't crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flakiest Night of the Week | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...their own. I guess when we went back inside to Social Studies, and I made comments there, some of the guys must've felt the same about me. I had different things encouraged in me; I had some advantages because though my father started poor, and worked his ass off, he wound up employing people--well, people like you. I'm still learning where that got me, and what the price was. It's sort of like, we have to know how and why we've become so different...

Author: By James A. Sleeper, | Title: Above The Battle: The Price We Pay | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

There had been the time when Ray had thought there might be a bounty on King's head, and he said, in front of Curtis, about King, "You are my big one, and one day I will collect all that money on your ass, nigger, for you are my retirement plan." But as the months passed, Ray seemed to have given up caring about money, if he ever did consider it seriously, for he got so he would say, about King, "If I ever get to the streets, I am going to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: I'm Gonna Kill That Nigger King' | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...envied in the world. The hates spring from Wriston's sharp tongue, which lashes at almost everyone in sight. Even one of his admirers formerly at Citibank says, with only slight exaggeration: "He is arrogant, flip and runs the place with a needle. Every comment is a wise-ass remark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wriston: Man with the Needle | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

Almost no real psychiatry goes on in this maze of aseptic corridors just south of Los Angeles. Instead doctors and med techs run a jerry-rigged system of forced drug use. The drugs are injected through the ass, a practice suspiciously similar to rape and certainly as humiliating, or mixed in dour little cups which are set out each morning with patients' names on them. The Norwalk State Hospital's addiction to drugs is punctuated by scenes from a convention of pharmaceutical companies where doctors windowshop for chemicals. One drug-company salesman happily sums...

Author: By Chuck Stephen, | Title: Overdose | 12/3/1975 | See Source »

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