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Word: asses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chanting, "We won't die for the price of gas, Uncle Sam go kiss my ass," the demonstrators marched through the streets of Harvard Square for more than an hour. They then proceeded along Mass. Ave. into Central Square, where they showed drivers their anti-intervention signs and banners, including "Yankee gangsters invade the Middle East for passing motorists...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Group Protests U.S. Gulf Role | 12/6/1990 | See Source »

...list included names such as "Aryan Acres," "Bad-ass neighbor of Switzerland," and "Cindy...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: Wellesley Organization Offends Students There | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...seriously. "It has nothing to do with artistic merit or substance," he says. Adds brother Delfeayo, who has produced more than a dozen albums for Columbia and other labels: "Sure, Wynton has the hype. He created the hype: he was cute and articulate, and he could play his ass off. But people shouldn't confuse the hype with the music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wynton Marsalis: Horns of Plenty | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...still feel the pain of these memories. I still experience an ache for the people of Russia. Those who shield Stalin from blame are nothing but ass kissers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Khrushchev's Secret Tapes | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

John Wayne, or possibly John Rambo, was still ghosting around some American imaginations last week. A banner stretched across I-75 in north Georgia -- a route the 101st Airborne traveled from Fort Campbell, Ky. -- gave the troopers a parting thought: GET THEIR GAS AND KICK THEIR ASS. Adrenaline, jingo and doubt mingled with sheer weirdness and a sort of emergency-issue nostalgia, as if Americans were rummaging through old LIFE magazines, dipping back into the lore of World War II to discover the styles of leave taking, of sweethearts' goodbyes. Television-news shows offered small touches of the USO, airing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: A New Test of Resolve | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

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