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Word: hideously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...process, he determined to revenge himself on Harvard by donating a grotesquely hideous building, which is now known as the Lampoon Castle (and always has been, since Hearst was a member of the Lampoon in his undergraduate days). The building is for some odd reason triangular in shape, and has five street addresses (count em): 29 Plympton St., 44 Bow St., 57 Mt. Auburn St., 1 Holyoke Court, and Zero Freedom Square). The tenants of this building put out a magazine several times a year, which brings us to our next point...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Cosmic Laughs in the Square | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...those of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, for whom Pusey served as a favorite target. He cited the Hitlerian tactic of "the big lie"-in this case, the radicals' claim "that the university is a hopelessly bigoted, reactionary force in our society which serves the interest of a hideous military-industrial complex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Voices of Commencement | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

...track star who "got stoned" on champagne the night before a meet and went out the next morning with "a hideous hangover" and ran the fastest 220 of his life? (See SPORT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Feb. 23, 1970 | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...taste in tipples. Both prefer champagne, though Doubell hastily adds: "I only drink champagne when it's available. I don't discriminate. I'll drink anything." Recalling one evening when he "got stoned" on champagne, he says that he went out the next morning "with a hideous hangover and ran the fastest 220 of my life in 22.2. Of course you can't do that all the time. Just about once a fortnight, I reckon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ralph the Rapscallion | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

Right. It's hideous. Evelyn Holly really knocked the hell out of the thing when she wrote an article for the New York Times called "How Black Do You Have to Be?" In other words, if you've had the black experience in this country, I don't care whether you're yellow or checked, you've had it. That's the only qualification you need to declare yourself a black actor or human being, a black...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Golden, | Title: Genet's The Blacks: A Director's Viewpoint | 2/5/1970 | See Source »

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