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Word: gettin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what did you want to go and do that for? What do they teach you there? I hear it's all a bunch of rich boobs runnin' around goin' to parties and gettin' drunk all the time. Are you all Irish?" And then the bone-cruncher: "When was the last time you went to Mass...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Harvard as the path to damnation | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...good-looking," she explained. "He speaks so good and handles himself so well." After addressing the Gray Panthers, an organization for promoting the cause of older people, she said Jimmy should help senior citizens if he is elected. "I want him to get into that because I'm gettin' old so fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Marching Through Manhattan | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...gettin' nowhere...

Author: By Steve Chapman, | Title: Runnin' Naked | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...looks like I'm gettin' ready to fight someone," Muhammad Ali mused as he stared at the 20,000 people packed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week. The occasion was a battle of sorts: a benefit concert for Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, a black middleweight boxer imprisoned since 1966 for a murder that he claims he did not commit. "You people out there, you have the connection and the complexion to get the protection," quoth Ah before surrendering the stage to a four-hour musical downpour that starred Bob Dylan, sounding like the old adenoidal prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 22, 1975 | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...know, rednecks, real hard core rurals, are gettin' high now. Sure. They drink all their lives. What the fuck, they musta been lookin' for a high...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: A Midnight Rider and the Flyin' Florida Omelet | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

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