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Word: asses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maintained, more specifically, that a Harvard diploma is not a meal ticket. That claim is ridiculous. Why do 6000 students pay Harvard $15,000 a year--because we like the food? If the Harvard alumni network doesn't plan to get its ass in gear and find us some jobs, there'll be hell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Derek Bok's Harvard | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...cans littering the sidewalk. A high school dropout, Walker gave up his last job, bagging groceries, two years ago. "When I was growing up in Mississippi, we were poor all right, but we didn't have the madness," Walker recalls. "Now we're just stuck here in this poor-ass ghetto, watching Oprah Winfrey on TV and listening to the damn gunshots at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghetto: From Bad to Worse | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

...otherwise blank page with a box explaining that a review of Spycatcher was appearing in all 170 countries where the magazine has subscribers, except one. "For our 420,000 readers there," the editors wrote, paraphrasing Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist, "this page is blank -- and the law is an ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: How Not to Silence a Spy | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...papers and TV stations chime in: if brutal crime can reach even the chief prosecutor's office and go unpunished, it is time for a change. As he has so often in the past, Horgan turns to Rusty, his reliable protege: "Catch me a perpetrator and save my worthless ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Killed Carolyn Polhemus? PRESUMED INNOCENT | 7/20/1987 | See Source »

...name really was Heloise. This in spite of much duly reported bar- and restaurant-hopping and a brush with the law after finding himself lost in a deserted shopping mall: "He told me to give him my license and sit down and shut up or he'd throw my ass in jail for public intoxication. I told him I hadn't seen much else but public intoxication in San Antonio that night, and his handcuffs made a cricketlike sound as he took them off his belt. I gave him my license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lallygagging Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

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