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Word: brung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Carter does not speak for all the American people, at least not for me. I'm going to "dance with the guy wat brung me"-Taiwan. Virginia B. Hooko Seattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 15, 1979 | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...armed and empowered patriots. The indifference quickly turned to hostility, as the observers kept trying to avoid violence and began to sympathize with the inmates' grievances: a guard bringing sandwiches to the committee room said, "If I'd a known this was for you people. I'd a never brung it." The townspeople of Attica and most of upstate New York shared this hostility: they thought the observers had no business negotiating with those "murderers, rapists, and scum"--they weren't "normal people like you and I," a guard's wife told a reporter...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: A Rubbing From A Tombstone | 3/8/1975 | See Source »

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