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Word: crapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into an Andover grad I had barely known who had been trying for months to get me to comp for The Crimson. I told him I never slept much, and he said I was a natural. I marched into the building determined not to take any crap and to do well. My first day I tackled two stories, the first about a black student accusing a teacher of racism, and the second about a guy who fell off a fire escape and whose parent threatened to sue The Crimson if I wrote the story. It was my first real challenge...

Author: By J.wyatt Emmerich, | Title: A Ticket to Ride | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...dealt so high because he has been "a sports nut since I could remember," and, he adds, "if I handle it right and produce some winners, I can do rather well economically." Adds the new sports czar of the West Coast: "There's a lot of crap-shooter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Casino | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

Though he is short of a parliamentary majority by five votes, Britain's Prime Minister James Callaghan has kept his Labor government in power since August by combining the boldness of a crap shooter with the cunning of a political confidence man. Even so, Callaghan constantly teeters on the edge of defeat. Last week he almost fell, surviving an unexpected vote of confidence only through a jerry-built majority of the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Still Sunny Jim | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...House Transcripts-were financial failures, with returns as high as 60%. The Pentagon Papers was their biggest success, with 1.66 million in print. "It is a high-risk venture," admits Stuart Applebaum, Bantam's publicity manager. Rena Wolner of Berkley is more blunt. Says she: "It's crap shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Quickie Phenomenon | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...character in the original back in '47. Levi has a nice voice, but it doesn't help much; Nathan doesn't have to sing very often. His characterization seems somehow too neurotic, too much mama's boy and not quite enough swagger for the proprietor of a floating crap game. But he's funny. They're all funny, or at least funny enough...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Lady Luck Rolls Again | 10/31/1978 | See Source »

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