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Word: butt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will do the trick." It is needed, he said, by Roy Ries Jr., a Presbyterian seminarian who had tried to avoid violence by standing with other clergymen between police and demonstrators. Ries, Royko claims, received a fractured skull and still has blurred vision from a rifle-butt blow on the head inflicted by a cop. The police-fund drive should be bigger, Royko conceded, because "Seminarian Ries contributed much less to the convention drama than did the city's policemen. He just lay there and bled, while they went on to even greater deeds." The American struck back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Mabley's Martyrs | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...photographs are used not only to study geographic features, but for taking censuses, and mapping trade routes and settlement patterns. Aerial photography was "Phase III" of the Project, financed by NSF in 1966. It is the butt of many jokes--some call it "Vogtie's thing"--but he defends it on the grounds of both teaching and research...

Author: By Carol J. Greenhouse, | Title: More Than a Club, It's A Research Community | 3/22/1969 | See Source »

...goal, have they won in their 15 or 20 years?). Nearly all are wearing caps (the few who are bareheaded haven't taken theirs off here). One out of four is tipsy, one out of ten is drunk. Every other one is smoking, and so disgustingly, with his butt stuck to his lower lip! So that long before the incense-in place of the incense-gray pillars of cigarette smoke rise from the church courtyard, with its electric lights, toward the Easter sky with its brown, motionless clouds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Easter Procession | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...receiving a letter from the Chicago Historical Society, asking him to preserve his correspondence and memorabilia for its archives. And it was underscored by his chagrin last August when he ventured out of the mansion to watch the rioting during the Democratic National Convention and got rapped across the butt by a cop who failed to recognize one of the town's biggest taxpayers. As part of his change of life, Hefner wants to be recognized and loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Hugh Hefner Faces Middle Age | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...Finch also firmly intended to force compliance without any annoying grace period. Before he can enforce the guidelines, he may have to butt heads with Jamie, Strom, and Dick...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Jamie, Strom, and Dick | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

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