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Word: earthiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monkey's Man. On and on John babbles in some of the earthiest colloquialisms ever to come out of Goldwater country. On justice: "Jesus Christ in the Jimson weed, damned if they don't expect the law to protect them from themselves-from confidence games, whorehouses, intoxicating liquor after Saturday midnight . . . and their own walking shadows." On sex: "A man ought to have two women, one for bed and one to see the Haviland china don't get chipped." On finance: "It ain't natural for money to breed . . . You get too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Don Coyote | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

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