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Word: freaking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Another swill of beer brought some more bile up. Just that evening he was waiting for the Watertown Square bus after work, sitting on an ancient bench in the urine-soaked subway when some freak hauling a queer knap-sack pushed his waist-length hair back behind his shoulders and began arguing with his chum about "perceptions of reality...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Good Man in the Clutch | 7/21/1978 | See Source »

...many Americans at any given moment are screaming "Shut up, Howard!"? The holiday game will be Tuesday at 2:15 on Channel 38. Dig it. After that, the Sox leave town for a nice, long road trip. Catch them later, kids. And if you're a real baseball freak and you can't think of anything better to do over a holiday weekend, the Fenway heroes' battles against the Baltimore Orioles will be televised--Friday night at 8:30, Saturday and Sunday at 2, on Channel 38, featuring the redoubtable Dick Stockton and his faithful sidekick, Hawk Harrelson, who gave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports | 6/30/1978 | See Source »

...This is a crazy place," June's road chum from St. Petersburg testified. "When I went to high school in St. Pete we used to sit around the lake and listen to music and drink beer and one day this Jesus Freak came up to us and started talking Jesus to us and jeez...he was weird! Well, we didn't really want to listen, so we just turned up the music and drank some more beer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Search of Pennant Fever | 4/14/1978 | See Source »

...Rolling Thunder television special or the live album. Renaldo and Clara also contains some of the best concert footage ever shot, including the Rolling Stones in Gimme Shelter. But as relief from the concerts we get documentary-style interviews, the best of which--David Blue and his speed freak raps at the pinball machine, an interview with black street kids uptown in New York about Hurricane Carter--are moderately interesting. The worst of which--any scene with Allen Ginsburg, most scenes with Ronnie Hawkins, generally everything else--are just boring...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Mr. Tambourine Man Goes to Hollywood | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...Pass lacks in glitter it makes up in snow-the hamlet was created by a ski club-and Phil and Steve began skimming down the slopes at the age of seven. As they developed, they became their own best coaches. Then, at 16, Phil suffered a setback when a freak avalanche buried him to the waist and broke his right leg. One year later he fractured the leg a second time while clowning around on a children's slide. Within 18 months, however, Mahre had recovered sufficiently to place a respectable fifth in the giant slalom in Innsbruck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Nice Guy Who May Finish First | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

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