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Word: assing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uncannily fresh tone of the Buttons which makes it a delightful success. When those English lads charmingly chanted "Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Spill his Blood!" it became clear that their best was a curiously grisly Disney. When these French scamps taunt their enemies, "All the Valerans are ass-scratchers!" they are convincing and rambunctiously Rabelaisian...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: The War of the Buttons | 4/25/1964 | See Source »

Knight lowered his voice: "Had a little trouble here last night--cop got shot." He grinned. "Same little raggedy-ass cop we kidnapped back in '61.--Hell, it ain't nothin' like it was back then. Them cops came right in here last night. We didn' use' to 'low no cops in C.M.E." Knight rubbed his chin. "I don't know what it is. Looks like the Movement got people kind of non-violent. Two years ago, they wouldn'a showed up for a Brinks robbery...

Author: By Peter Delissovoy, | Title: The Failure in Albany, Georgia | 10/22/1963 | See Source »

...said it merely to infuriate them. I could see he was enjoying his psychological superiority. When they threatened to handcuff him to the bars and "whup his ass," he only shrugged...

Author: By Peter Delissovoy, | Title: The Failure in Albany, Georgia | 10/22/1963 | See Source »

...wartime cartoon, showing the Prime Minister at the head of a troop of resolute Britons, rolling up sleeves against the dirty job ahead. This must have pleased Churchill mightily; in other times, he had been one of Low's particular targets. "You can't bridle the wild ass of the desert," said Churchill after one painful portrait, "still less prohibit its natural heehaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cartoonists: The Statesman | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...graduation ceremony is segregated, and the defeated bully (another Negro) is driven to his death by a white cop. His brother-in-law is a dangerous drunk who loads a shotgun whenever he gets loaded himself, and blazes away at the sky shouting "I'm gonna blow the ass off Jesus Christ, the long-legged white son-of-a-bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Kind of Kansas | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

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