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Word: asses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sandow does like football. Most of all, he says, for "knowing that every day for four years I was there...when you work your ass off every day and it's tough." With evident pleasure he recalls being knocked cold while returning a punt in practice, and the time he mistakenly played defensive tackle for one play against Dartmouth's freshman team. He received a standing ovation from the crowd and from the Dartmouth bench...

Author: By Robert Lunbeck, | Title: 'Being From East St. Louis, You've Got Badness' | 11/19/1975 | See Source »

QUOTE: I'm not dumb. You can be a jock and smart, too. And I'm better than the Bellizeare any day. Beep Beep, My Ass. And if you don't like it, I'll shove your face into the floor...

Author: By William E. Stedman, | Title: Rock Steady | 10/31/1975 | See Source »

...true power, repetition-as in this past summer's Rolling Stones tour-for lack of any new directions. Springsteen has taken rock forward by taking it back, keeping it young. He uses and embellishes the myths of the '50s pop culture: his songs are populated by bad-ass loners, wiped-out heroes, bikers, hot-rodders, women of soulful mystery. Springsteen conjures up a whole half-world of shattered sunlight and fractured neon, where his characters re-enact little pageants of challenge and desperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Backstreet Phantom of Rock | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...They want me to try soccer style, so I'll try soccer style," Part McInally said as he sat on the wet grass outside Harvard Stadium Saturday morning, lacing a pair of football cleats. "But boy, my ass is sure sore. I've never done it before. I can't do it worth shit...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: McInally, Bengal in Limbo, Quietly Returns to Harvard | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

Perhaps he had just rejected his past. Oscar Ameringer, editor of the Labor World, later wrote that Hall got "tired of advertising the fact that his father had made an ass of himself fighting for slaves he might have sold to the Yanks and still kept as sharecroppers." Ira Finley, another friend, wrote of Hall that "trained and educated to be a respectable citizen, "he "rather chose to be a companion of the Toilers." Perhaps, but I think not, for Covington Hall was neither a cynic about nor a rejecter of the Old South...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: In Search of Covington Hall | 10/23/1975 | See Source »

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