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Word: asses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defeat was especially discouraging for the Pennsylvanian's Jeff Rothbard. "I've been looking forward to kicking ass on these guys ever since March when they didn't give me their votes for the All-Ivy Sportswriting Team...

Author: By Grady M. Bolding, | Title: Grady Sparks 'Crime | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

Finally--and by this time, we've realized the three women are three sisters--Ma is introduced. She's a tough old lady. As much of a talker and as big a pain in the ass as any-of her daughters, as Pa (Robert Donley) himself points out. You're a wrinkled old bastard, she replies in the crisscross of invective that bind the two together. And Furth has made his point. Each of the women is her mother's daughter ("Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined," to quote Pope on the matter) and each...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Towards a Comedy of Lost Possibilities | 10/28/1971 | See Source »

...Your Ass...

Author: By Grady M. Bolding, | Title: Hevern Learns to Live With It | 10/9/1971 | See Source »

...Another thrill is laying on your ass in the line and seeing a back seven or eight yards down the field," he added...

Author: By Grady M. Bolding, | Title: Hevern Learns to Live With It | 10/9/1971 | See Source »

Herrnstein said that this principle could be applied in education by dividing a student's performance by his I.Q. "It's obviously ridiculous to give somebody with a 160 I.Q. A's just for sitting on his ass, while a kid with an 80 I.Q. is breaking his back and getting...

Author: By David R. Caploe, | Title: Herrnstein in 'The Atlantic' Predicts American Meritocracy | 9/24/1971 | See Source »

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