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Word: baddest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...junior majoring in education when he dropped out last December and began venting his increasingly eccentric views through a blaring loudspeaker propped in his second-floor window near the campus in Columbus. Until last week, however, no one took seriously his amplified boast that he was "the baddest ______________mother on the block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Third King Tragedy | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

...thirds of whom were black. One day in 1967, when Noah was in third grade, she broke up a fight between him and an older boy named Jelly Stowe. When she invited Jelly home for milk and cookies, Noah said, "Mom, you gotta be crazy! He's the baddest kid in school!" Two months earlier, Jelly had slapped Sarah Stalvey's second-grade teacher, and school officials described him as "very emotionally disturbed." But Lois Stalvey soon saw that beneath his bellicose exterior Jelly was a shy, affectionate and bright child. He had slapped the teacher, he explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Making Bad Kids | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...known as the "iron pile" and is the pastime for weight lifters, body builders and ego trippers ... From work call to lunch hour, ironpushin' regulars hit the pile with predictable regularity ... To them, working out is a contest of who is the strongest, who is the baddest... As the sun slides down ... style is now trump and all hands hold the boss suit. Pump-up freaks are in the game; they rip off [lift after lift] until their muscles are swollen with blood and then, and only then, they strip to the waist. As they remove their shirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Words From the Inside Out | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

Many felt that the beneficiary of this change would be volatile Bronx Congressman Mario Biaggi. However, the most decorated policeman in America locked horns in a tooth-and-nail battle with the baddest hombre of them all, the media, and came out looking like a rookie. For weeks, Biaggi kept insisting that he hadn't taken the Fifth Amendment in front of a grand jury. When the testimony was released and it showed that he had indeed taken not only the Fifth but entire Bill of Rights, his campaign machinery stopped functioning...

Author: By Douglas E. Schoen, | Title: Which Way the Grand Concourse | 5/25/1973 | See Source »

...occur this weekend could make the rest of the year seem like a revival of "Ozzie and Harriet." The ghoul of this weekend's feature is the Penn/Princeton double header, also known as the Quaker/Tiger, and, as far as the rest of the league is concerned, it is the baddest of the bad among the Ivies...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 3/2/1973 | See Source »

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