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Word: baaa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Another woman, admired for supporting her ancient, mentally enfeebled mother, actually beats the old lady. Eldritch also has its girlish flibbertigibbets (Susan Tyrrell and Katherine Bruce), its freak, a hunchbacked girl, and its leper, a whiskery derelict whom the local toughs mock with cries of "baaa!, baaa!" because he supposedly was once seen in an act of bestiality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Twisted Lives | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

High School, where students say there were three pregnancies last year, embarrasses a couple leaving a party to be alone by crying "Baaa" and jerking their elbows in a sideward motion, indicating that the couple intends to do more than make sheep's eyes. Interracial necking is acceptable, reports Junior Clyde Leland, 15, "but usually they're the phonies trying so hard to be liberal." Denver's suburban Cherry Creek High is known for academic excellence and high-strung students, but it also has "woodsies"-dancing on the sand of a dry creek bed while beer cans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: On the Fringe of a Golden Era | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

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