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Word: buttes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...International Falls, Minn. native hasn't been the butt of too many of his teammate's jokes lately. At 6-ft., 2-in and 210 Ibs. Sheehy has made sure by throwing his weight around all season long. And as both teammates and opponents have learned. Sheehy means business...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Harvard's Enforcer on the Ice | 3/15/1983 | See Source »

...pair of jeans to fit her butt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: How Toe-dully Max Is Their Valley | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

First he was stripped naked. Then the soldiers squeezed his testicles with pliers. They poured vinegar with pepper in his eyes. They poured gasoline on his feel and burned them. The butt of an armalite was struck against his body. They forced him to drink two liters of water through his nose. He moved his bowel and vomited blood. In addition, they gave him electric shocks. --affidavit of Virginia del Carmen about the torture of her husband. Rudy del Carmen, a Filipino...

Author: By Jonathan G. Cedurhamsn, | Title: Death in Manila | 9/22/1982 | See Source »

...Foley demeans the trainee. Mayo feels compelled to struggle on, to prove to himself more than anyone else that he can outlast his opponent When the two part company at film's end. Ensign Mayo concedes without emotion that he wouldn't have persevered without Foley's reverse-psychology butt-kicking. Gosset draws his lips into a by-now familiar tight line and hisses. "Get the fuck out of here...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Growing Up In The Navy | 8/6/1982 | See Source »

...keeping with the simplicity of the film's humor, Allen has none of these characters develop any signs of full-fledged humanity. The flat roles allow several characters to be the butt of jokes, but one wonders whether characterization is a necessary sacrifice to comedy. Perhaps it is, since Jose Ferrar gets to play a totally unbelievable, but very funny intellectual snob. He smirks; the camera closes in, and he almost purrs his line: "I did not create the cosmos, I merely explain them...

Author: By Clea Simon, | Title: Sex on a Summer's Night | 7/30/1982 | See Source »

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