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Word: craps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pull down food prices only if farmers enjoy ideal rain and sunshine, no sudden frosts, an ample supply of fuel and fertilizer and an absence of blight. Such an unbroken string of happy circumstances is as rare in agriculture as eight passes in a row are at the crap table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Harvest of Worry | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...other ways. Was courage charging a machine gun or saying no to a wrong war? Or was it merely wise endurance of an insane environment? Four years later, O'Brien is still unsure. "I was brave in one sense," he says. "I had to withstand all that crap of training. In that sense I did all right. On the other side of the coin is the moral question. If I had to do it all over, I probably wouldn't go. But back in the 60s, there were all sorts of social pressures...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: The Red Badge | 5/8/1973 | See Source »

...sensitive Wounded Knee negotiations, and he rarely attends council meetings. Agnew aides note that he likes to keep busy, but one of them admitted: "He does have bad days. He'll say, 'What the hell am I doing? Why in hell am I handling this crap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENT: Agnew Watches And Waits | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...Kael this is another form of Madison Avenud militancy, which flatters youth with a new cosmetic image, and is more irresponsible than the old formulas of Doris Dayland banality. For the message movies tune their politics to an ad man's pitch. They mainline the message "America is all crap" and project an American self-hatred not only on the present but on the past (Tell Them Willie Boy is Here). They pat you on the back for paranoia with pictures of a world pitted against you. And by leaving you with the feeling that the only thing left...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Kael-aesthetics | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

Harvard students have strong beliefs on many subjects; but, they are obviously apathetic toward sidewalks. On my daily journeys down Athens Street I am confronted by armies of "street pedestrians". And please do not give me the crap that the sidewalks are in decrepit condition. My worn shock absorbers attest to the fact that the streets are just as bad. As an ungrammatical, but mundane, Midwestern farmer once said, "Pigs is pigs." Kevin Crane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PIGS IS PIGS" | 1/31/1973 | See Source »

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