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Word: crotched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspicious pilot had personally searched the two men before the takeoff from Amsterdam, but once the Pan American 747 was aloft they pulled pistols from crotch holsters and announced that they were hijacking the plane on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. They ordered the plane to Cairo and eventually blew it up. That was in September 1970. While worrying about the series of Arab hijackings, Pan American also had a more mundane problem: Who was going to pay for its $24,288,759 plane? Was the 747 covered by the regular "all-risk" insurance issued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: What Is a War? | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

Soon after their voyage begins, more than 50% of submariners begin sleeping from twelve to 16 hours a day -simply to escape boredom. At the same time, sexual frustrations begin to increase. X-rated movies attract capacity crowds, and "crotch novels" pass quickly from hand to hand. Says Psychologist Benjamin Weybrew of the Naval Submarine Medical Center in Groton, Conn.: "The pornographic route has probably served a useful purpose." Some behaviorists even advocate pornographic libraries for each submarine to help alleviate tension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Limits of Astronauts | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

Animation lets Bakshi run free with arresting fantasies. When Mama and Papa battle, Papa lays Mama out with a haymaker; Mama hurls a meat cleaver that catches Papa right in the crotch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Street Sounds | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

From the stage, there are only remembered pictures, the knowledge that Jagger pads his crotch; the star on his forehead, virtually invisible...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: 'You Guys Aren't Exactly Muscle Beach' | 7/28/1972 | See Source »

Images: from the stage, there are only remembered pictures, the knowledge that Jagger pads his crotch: the star on his forehead, virtually invisible; a smiling Don Law, basking in a successful how, as I passed through the backstage area with a case of the dry heaves from the heat in front of the stage; the Jagger-Richard duets; quick glances around the Garden, with the balcony looking like another, calmer, world removed from the chaos downstairs; a rear stage view, with Chip Monck's arm slashes cueing the crew in the split second of a chord change...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: 'You Guys Aren't Exactly Muscle Beach' | 7/28/1972 | See Source »

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