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Word: bitch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Democratic leaders were loyally closing behind the President, even though they believe, as one phrased it, that passing the package will be "a bitch." Said Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "The solution requires the best that is in us. This is a supreme test and it requires a supreme effort. Yet I think there's a reservoir of courage and strength and patriotism here that will respond." House Democratic Leader Tip O'Neill readily concurred, declaring that passage of the President's package will involve "the toughest fight this Congress has ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE ENERGY WAR | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...party had just gone down to a disastrous defeat with Candidate George McGovern, who carried only one state (Massachusetts) and the District of Columbia. Through a combination of shrewd politicking and good-humored bullying-"He is the only person I know who can call you a son of a bitch and leave you laughing!" says an admirer-Strauss succeeded brilliantly in reconciling the party's warring wings into a reasonably coherent organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Picking a Winner | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...grind. Motorcycle gangs, too, have often embraced Hitlerian helmets and swastikas. All such artifacts are readily available through mail-order import houses, as well as some gun and specialty shops, and the catalogues are advertised in various gun and hunting magazines. Porn paperbacks like Gestapo Prison Brothel and Bitch of Buchenwald have their avid readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Neo-Nazi Groups: Artifacts of Hate | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...contest for the Spiro Agnew Memorial Ethnic Slur Award, which last year went to Earl Butz, is already under way. A strong early bid has been made by Federal Trade Commissioner Paul Rand Dixon, who called Consumer Watchdog Ralph Nader a "son of a bitch" and a "dirty Arab" in a Jan. 17 speech before the Grocery Manufacturers of America. Nader's offense was charging that the commission coddled industry at the expense of the public. Dixon's semiapologetic remarks to a reporter did not help matters much. Conceding that his slur on Nader, who is of Lebanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 14, 1977 | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...resident bitch," she recalls, "very dissatisfied with my life and a very unhappy person who channeled my energy in a negative direction." She started to change when she passed her high school equivalency test and became a licensed practical nurse. Then she turned toward the priesthood. At first she and Delton argued so violently over this that they even considered divorce, but "when I found out that he was only afraid that I would be hurt, I understood." She took courses at Catholic and Disciples of Christ seminaries in town and has continued privately directed studies. After being ordained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Father, Make Her a Priest' | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

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