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Word: bums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They strutted into the Polo Lounge or La Scala or Dominic's, bound in safari suits, blissfully playing the room, death just another sour-grapes rumor out of the East, bad word of mouth, something that used to figure in grainy European-made films, which everybody knew were bum grossers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: St. Urbain Street Revisited | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

...seems the hottest day of the summer, I wait for the ugly melody of the construction worker's yell at dawn. The faces stare back at me--a tired traffic cop; the bag lady, waking from a night's sleep in front of a burnt-out marquee; the sleazy bum waiting for Caesar's massage parlor to open its doors to all his lust. By the end of the summer I told time by these people. Their habits were so fixed that I knew I was late to work if the doors to Adam and Eve's sex palace were...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: Hot Town, Summer in the City | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

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