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Word: butts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the remaining story reads like an Evelyn Waugh comedy, told from the point of view of the butt of the joke. The longer Burgess's education proceeds, the more unqualified he becomes for useful employment. He meets and later marries a spirited Welsh classmate at Manchester University who has an idiosyncratic notion of marital fidelity: "There were plenty of attractive people around and it would be a shame and a waste not to find out what they were like with their clothes off." World War II offers Burgess nearly six years of wasted time in uniform; he gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Panorama Little Wilson and Big God | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...sing the same language. Yours is repression and responsibility; ours is energy and anarchy. Rock music is a code you'll never understand. It takes us higher and deeper than you could ever hope to go. And so you have nothing to teach us. We're tuned in. You butt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Talkin' 'Bout My Generation LIGHT OF DAY | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

Half an hour later Auque and Marchand were approached by gunmen. One grabbed Auque, struck him on the head with a pistol butt and forced him into a waiting car. Marchand escaped from a terrorist who jammed a Kalashnikov automatic rifle into his stomach and shouted, "I want to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: Another Day, A New Hostage | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...hiss every time a professor says "Yale" in class? Hiding behind The Joke's inherent anonymity, hundreds. of Harvard undergraduates daily undergo a dreaded ritual of emitting the grating sound of a tire being punctured by a rusty nail. Don't look so innocent you whey-faced, chicken-butt cowards. Yea, I know it's not you--its the next guy. Always the next guy. Well listen up, spineless--it's a community problem now, a problem we are going to have to face and deal with together...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Stop, Before It's Too Late | 12/15/1986 | See Source »

...after the Harvard cagers got over their initial dejection, they had a lot to be happy about, too. Crimson Coach Pete Roby went in turn to each player who was still lying prone, picked him up, and slapped him on the butt. "Chin up, guys," he seemed to be saying, "you lost the battle but together we're all going to win this...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Arriving at Last | 12/5/1986 | See Source »

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