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Word: freak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plane. I took about 550 seeds just before the bus left. A lot of kids from school on the bus were stoned too. Some had grass and one guy drank two bottles of cough syrup. And it was really good for about an hour but then I started to freak. I felt like jumping off the bus. I just had to move. There were pine trees along the road and they all started to move really fast. They were moving too fast for me so I closed my eyes. But I had to open them all the time because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning On: Two Views: A TeenAger's Trip | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...thought I was going insane and would have to be committed. When I finally got on the jet, I really started to freak because there was no one to talk to. I really wanted to talk to someone I knew. So I just sat there gripping the seat when the hallucinations got bad. The next day I was feeling really strange. I was psychotically paranoid. I thought people were trying to kill me and that they were behind huge plots against me. When I got back to school about two weeks later, I was pretty normal except that I never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning On: Two Views: A TeenAger's Trip | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...enough middleclass kids went to jail, all of their parents would be so upset that they would never let the war continue. I'll still bet that when my parents talk to other parents, they defend what I did. It's really hard to call your own kid a "freak...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: The Resistance: An Obituary | 9/23/1969 | See Source »

This kept happening as he sat in the chair, staring at the phone, ill that day and the next. His roommate got scared and told Martin that he was going to sleep in Dave's room "because you're blowing your goddamned mind, you freak," but Martin didn't even hear him. He was completely absorbed in his hallucinations, which kept getting more and more intense, more and more frantic. Something was going to happen very soon now, and Martin didn't want to miss it. Soon he had to grip the chair to keep from being thrown out, everything...

Author: By Samuel Bonder, | Title: 'For Betty, With No Hard Feelings' | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...wigs and snagged a job working for a gas-station owner who didn't want "longhairs hanging around." Another customer was in traffic court and, figuring that "I'd rather be prosecuted for my transgression against the Virginia traffic code than be persecuted for being a freak," he invested in one of Woodford's wigs. He didn't beat the rap, but the arresting officer said: "Well, one good thing came out of this: you got your hair cut." Another bought his wig so that customs agents would not search him for marijuana after a trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: Topping It Off | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

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