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Word: gangly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, that's all for the close matches gang. Make way for the bagel parade...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Racquetwomen Convict Judges | 10/14/1977 | See Source »

...large and strong, iron-muscled, youthfully indestructible, for I had already survived and made my peace with every bestiality and indignity that poverty exacts. I was the product of the gutter and the gang, the lousy, bedbug-ridden tenement, the burning streets and the empty lots. I had carried brass knucks and used them, and in my animal world, I was beaten and I beat others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Dreamers | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

...face it gang, these are not very exciting times, and if you're trying to bang out a coherent weekly sports column, these times are downright boring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mail Chauvinism | 10/7/1977 | See Source »

...violence, for instance, moves rapidly through 19 scenes of mass murder, bludgeoning, bombing and miscellaneous mayhem. In the film on sexuality, compassionate treatment of sex is viewed favorably, but many scenes are criticized for mechanizing and dehumanizing sex. Among the more eye-stopping examples: Gabriel Kaplan joking about gang rape; a crazed rapist on Baretta telling his victim, "I've broken a lot of necks in my time. I'm glad you know it. It will make it better." On advertising, T.A.T. presents the classic (though now changed) commercial in which David Janssen mumbles that doctors' studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: If the Eye Offend Thee | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

First names make a difference. Try joining a street gang if your name is Chauncey or a law firm if your parents named you Fifi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The Name Game | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

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