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Word: assing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knots-sleep, swim, send money home. Like all airmen, they do a lot of ground flying: when their ecclesiastical employers are out of earshot, they talk of bombing Lagos or heroically knocking down the Intruder by maneuvering a wingtip under his wingtip in the darkness and "flipping his ass to kingdom come." They joke grimly over the fact that their nightly flights mean only a trickle of food for Biafra's famished population. Then, as day begins to vanish over Sāo Tomé, dinner is served, the cargo trucks depart, the ancient aircraft cough into life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biafra: Come on Down and Get Killed | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...replica of the Presidential Seal embroidered by his daughter? Only time will tell. Meanwhile, we must hope for something wonderful to happen. After all, wouldn't it be nice if just once we could see our absurdly serious President slip on a banana peel and land flat on his ass...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Nixon Wit | 3/17/1969 | See Source »

...know what the outcome of all this will be, but I do know that I, for one, will never kiss your ass, will never submit to your demagogic machinations...

Author: By Clyde Lindsay, | Title: The Man | 3/13/1969 | See Source »

There is a Good Guy and a Bad Guy in each match. The crowd identifies with the Good Guy and triumphs with him over the Bad Guy. They watch the Good Guy help the Bad Guy make an ass out of himself. And the bigger ass the Bad Guy makes of himself, the more they approve. The louder they laugh...

Author: By Marilyn F. Kalata, | Title: And Then a Woman's View--'Pathetic' | 3/8/1969 | See Source »

...Giant ass woman, you're just

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chicken-Soup Freak | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

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