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Word: backrooms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidate never refers to himself as I, and he never says anything is doubtful So "we" went to talk to the boys in the backroom of the firehouse, and meanwhile Shirley MacLame stole his audience outside. She is quite beautiful, more so than on the screen and even her alootness was more appealing than a candidate's underwhelming warmth. A man who is running for President is something natural, a common man. A movie star is something entirely different. She smiled dutifully at my camera and signed an autograph for the green-eyed girl, and was off without ever leaving...

Author: By Peter Southwick, | Title: Ward 10, Manchester | 3/17/1972 | See Source »

...drove South "... down, down the map into orange groves and smoking rivers and barefoot women." He dreamed of his old basketball days, and his old laying-Janice-in-the-backroom days, and of making it with a DuPont in Delaware. Then he stopped at a gas station, and found he was travelling in circles. The stupid farmer at the gas-pump said: "The only way to get somewhere, you know, is to figure out where you're going before you go there...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Updike's Rabbit, Back in Brewer | 1/4/1972 | See Source »

...High Cost. The increase in the number of primaries is both good and bad. A primary means a more democratic election of delegates to party conventions, and thus strips the professional politicians and their backroom supporters of some power. Half the country's eligible voters now live in states that hold primaries, and, in theory, at least, both parties' final candidates should represent the popular choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fitting Up for the Primaries | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

Such clinics should go a long way toward driving the illegal abortionist out of his dangerous and dirty business. Like the hospitals, the clinics will also offer patients something that backroom abortionists do not provide: advice on how not to need an abortion in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abortion on Demand | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

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