Search Details

Word: boob (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...third time this winter, Harvard triumphed in front of a boob-tube audience. For the first time ever, Bill Cleary won his 100th game as Crimson mentor (plus a cake to go), and Tim Taylor returned to Cambridge as Yale's new hockey coach and did as well as Yale's old hockey coach...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: For Harvard, One Yale of a Weekend | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...much of anything else. Then, when your opponent is all set up, you show up for a campaign debate, leaving your college football helmet at home, and play 90 minutes of What's My Line? without falling on your fanny. Viewers are impressed. You aren't an utter boob after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: When Their Power Failed | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

...managed to break the boob barrier with a nude shot of "Squeaky" Fromme (of all people), and the next week's issue abounded with nipples and braless breasts. Not so much a complaint as an observation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Oct. 13, 1975 | 10/13/1975 | See Source »

...Boob Tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jun. 9, 1975 | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

...said my brother's wife. 'My dear Rose,' I answered, laying down my egg spoon, 'why in the world should I do anything?'" Soon Hills began disintegrating. His Rust Hills personality split into three parts-the Fussy Man who made lists, an amiable boob named Larry Placebound, who charged about the country doing marginal journalistic assignments, and a troll called LOMLIC, which stands for Lonely Old Man Lives in Country. Not surprisingly, Hills' wife, stepchildren and dog appear to have left him during this period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Shirk Ethic | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

Previous | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | Next