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Word: cuss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ADVOCATES (NET, 10-11 p.m.) dis cuss whether involuntary commitment on the grounds of mental illness should be abolished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 21, 1969 | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

NOTORIOUS LADIES OF THE FRONTIER by Harry Sinclair Drago. 270 pages. Dodd, Mlead. $6. What drove the West wild was ladies named Millie Hipps, Mattie Silks, Mammy Pleasant, Madame Moustache, Lurline Monte Verdi and Silver Dollar. Carefully chronicled and not a cuss word throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Week: The Literary Overflow | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...underlines justice as a prerequisite. Nevertheless, lowans like their Governor's forthright ways, and this works in Hughes' favor. "I mainly talk from my gut," says Hughes. His often ragged syntax bears witness to a formal education that ended after a year of college, and he can cuss like a teamster. Once, local legend has it, he convened a meeting with the words: "All right, you sons of bitches, let's pray." He can also speak with a fervor honed by years as a Methodist lay preacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: TWO TOUGH FIGHTS FOR THE SENATE | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...cigar clenched between my teeth, my derby tilted back, knees crossed, and my back arched at a sharp angle against the back of the chair. I'd cuss at the keyboard and then caress it with endearing words; a pianist who growls, hums, and talks to the piano is a guy who is trying hard to create something for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: Still Roaring | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

Presumably aimed at those customers who like to see the lower halves of double bills, Fort Utah never once rises above second-class status. Its covered wagon train predictably forms a circle at the first sign of Injuns, its cast mouths such ancient phrases as "you ornery cuss" and "I ain't seen hide nor hair of you." In a world of permanent revolution, it is reassuring to note that for undiscriminating moviegoers some things never change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Some Things Never Change | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

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