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Word: crapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about this guy, Nathan Detroit. He runs a crap game, but there's no place to play. So he bets a Sky Masterson that this Sky guy can't con a Salvation Army girl into going to San Juan with him (some Harvie in back of me said it was really supposed to be Havana, but the Commies screwed it up). Oh yeah, Nathan's got a stripper he's engaged to for fourteen years, named Adelaide, she's the best thing in the show. She knows how to move. And she's got a great voice. Kind of like...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Guys and Dolls | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...chorus doesn't seem to know where it's supposed to be. Like where we guys hang around streetcorners, these show guys just sort of mill. But a lot of the time they're supposed to be hanging around streetcorners, so it's OK. And when they shoot crap, they got a great sewer...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Guys and Dolls | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...show teaches you a lesson: marry a girl who likes to shoot crap. I knew that already, but this is a fun way to learn. When I grow up I want to be Nathan Detroit...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Guys and Dolls | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...turn over some 300 letters to and from him, including, unfortunately, only a few notes from his late brothers, Chico and Harpo. "I don't think Harpo could write," said Groucho, "but Chico did write me once. I was in Macwahoc, Me., out fishing. Chico was in a crap game in Las Vegas and lost everything. He wrote me to come back and make a movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 29, 1965 | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...student admitted that she had wasted her earlier high school years trying to "rate" among her friends. "I've learned more in these past seven weeks than I learned in the 17 years that went before," she says now. "I'm through with that 'ingroup' crap!" Most project officials are convinced that the $1,000 or so invested in each of the students this summer will bring big rewards in the saving of otherwise wasted talent and in the kids' own dis covery of their potentialities. Of the first 50 students at Western Washington, Instructor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: The Bright D-Minus Kids | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

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