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Word: dimes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every one of Loewinsohn's poems stops as ??? as a motorcycle on a dime. Some details are ???palpable as chunks of gristly meat: "a high ???ing/ of that attentuated stream of urine/ ???st the porcelain." Other details hang with the ???iness of hot air: "The sink full of dishes. ??? will have to be washed...

Author: By Elizabeth R. Fishel, | Title: Meat Air | 5/1/1970 | See Source »

...unit per every three families) or the Cuba that is building and providing housing free for everyone? The Cuba that was "only" 20-30 per cent illiterate or the Cuba that is now close to 0.0 per cent? The Cuba that printed 1,000,000 books in 1958 (mostly dime novels, Superman, and bad pornography) or the Cuba that printed 23,000,000 volumes in 1968-mostly textbooks but also history, economics, and best-selling editions of the European classics...

Author: By Gene Bell, | Title: The Features Mail Cuba: Statistics Full of Fallacies | 4/15/1970 | See Source »

...idea which was becoming increasingly attractive. Then I got to Park, where earlier I had looked unsuccessfully for a bathroom. I went to the information booth and learned that there was indeed such a depository. When I go there, I discovered that I had to put up a dime to use it; but there was no hesitation...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Red, Blue, Green, Orange-A Subway Odyssey | 4/11/1970 | See Source »

...Magic Christian's promoters have topped their competition in substituting flesh (whether on Raquel's chest or Ringo's face) for substance. But if you'd like to get what the movie has to offer before it comes to TV (no more than a year), just drop a dime into a public urinal and watch someone...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Golden, | Title: The Moviegoer The Magic Christian | 3/13/1970 | See Source »

...TIME, Feb. 2) is obviously a man whose political conscience is easily stirred, probably by reading the box-office receipts in Variety. Everything about his film is tacky, derivative, finally exploitative-except for a funny and wise performance by Fredric March. As crafty Mayor Jeff Parks, March transforms a dime-store piece like . . . tick . . . tick . . . tick . . . into a one-jewel movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: One-Jewel Movement | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

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