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Word: crumpeted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first issue of the Star punched pretty hard, meaning that it was difficult to distinguish it from its rivals. The main selling point is a daily "Starbird," a full-page bare-breasted crumpet on page 7 (the Sun usually carries its cuties on page 3, the Mirror on page 5 or 7). The Star's top Stories: MODEL'S MYSTERY PLUNGE (she fell all of 12 ft. from the window of her lover's flat and broke her ankles), I WAS HIDING DRINK IN THE GROCERIES (a soccer player's drinking problem), BEAUTY AND THE PRIEST...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Cheesecakes and Ale in Britain | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...least the G********* Department course had the sembalance of academic rigor. The Tea-and-Crumpet type of seminars don't. In these classes you receive lady fingers with your syllabus and scones with your exam questions. It's nice when an instructor believes that the members of a seminar should get to know one another outside of class, but during discussion it becomes difficult to take as serious criticisms offered by someone you've been talking out the past few weeks. When someone else accuses you of having racist attitudes or neanderthal political views, you feel like going over...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Naive Student | 10/5/1974 | See Source »

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