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Word: hick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harder They Come Now that reggae has made the cover of the Rolling Stone and is no longer the exclusive province of the chic, maybe this Jimmy Cliff "country hick to shantytown to bigtime to rubout" regional novel of a flick will make it beyond the cult who love it already. You can see it if you really want...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Film | 8/10/1976 | See Source »

...city person. I'm a country hick...

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

President is aware of the secret order and of Martin's guilt. Armed with that knowledge, he tries to indulge in a little friendly blackmail to get CIA files for use in the next election. This President, Esker Scott Anderson, is portrayed as a vast, salty-tongued, womanizing hick and a "pluperfect egomaniac" who dotes on the appointments of the presidential plane. (Even the candy wrappers aboard, Ehrlichman writes, come emblazoned with the words Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modified, Limited Hangout | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

Daniel O'Meara, a graduate student who brought the charges against the three, said that he thought Judge Philip S. Carchman's decision to fine the three was "appropriate." He said 90 per cent of those present disagreed with the sentiments of Hick's speech, but that the disruption was uncalled...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Speech Disrupters | 12/10/1975 | See Source »

Buchanan, Hamm, and King, when reached yesterday, said that they pleaded "guilty with an explanation" to Carchman. All three said there had been no premeditated plan to disrupt Hick's speech, but that her remarks made them "emotionally distraught...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Speech Disrupters | 12/10/1975 | See Source »

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