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Word: buttes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agreed to produce an authentic moonshiner spoke with real pride of the man's wares. "His whisky's good stuff-crystal clear," he said. "Stinks to high heaven, but if you can get past the smell, it'll set you on your head or butt faster 'n he'd blow your innards out for smiling courtin'-like at his daughters. When I was high sheriff, I put the ax to at least 300 stills, but I never did his, he bein' my kin. One time he and his old woman had a fallin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Making Moonshine in Kentucky | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

...with his polls of old. "I carried every county in the state. See here. I even carried Dade County. Dade 10th: 13,500. Dade 11th: 22,000." As the plane soared into the azure sky, the candidate kept looking at the figures and talking. Now and again Cornelia would butt in for some comment on the press's treatment of George and how he is misunderstood. He would tell her to "hush now, I'm talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: A Jarring Message from George | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

...high statue of Chairman Mao dominates the entrance to the base where we are waved in by a P.L. A. traffic policeman snapping green and red flags in his hands. Near by the troops line up; they practice firing their AK-47 automatic rifles and butt each other with rubber-tipped bayonets shouting "Heighten vigilance to our motherland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Excursions in Mao's China | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

...owes something to the fact that Oronte is his rival for the hand of Celimene. He is hard on everybody but himself, and overlooks his own transgressions of the ideals he imposes on others. Seemingly a giant among the moral pygmies of the court life, he is the ultimate butt of Moliere's humor...

Author: By Sim Johnson, | Title: Le Misanthrope | 3/4/1972 | See Source »

...raids were made on the homes of wealthy Protestants-most of them magistrates or city councilors-in Belfast's Malone Road district, hitherto untouched by terrorism. Two houses were wrecked by bombs, the husband of Edith Taggart, Ulster's only woman Senator, was struck with a pistol butt, the wife of a city councilor was slightly wounded by gunshot, and a reserve army sergeant was shot critically in the chest and neck. No deaths resulted because the raids were either bungled, thwarted by the resistance of the householders, or ill-planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: Acceptable Violence? | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

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