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Word: humped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hardest to swallow is the unrelieved bitterness and rage against men expressed throughout the report's pages. Women and Love so resonates with angry voices that the volume fairly vibrates in one's hand. Charges one of Hite's women: "Every man you meet still tries to hump you every way he can. It's about time we humped them back." Blasts another: "Men think they are so mature, but deep down they are such babies. They expect to be catered to. They whine and complain about everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Back Off, Buddy | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

...spruce, fir and aspen, by the eastern face of the Rockies. Its winters can get quite brutal, and now and again an old hand decides to break the monotony by taking a lesson from Marge. Even if you have no ear at all, Marge can get you over the hump with, say, Old MacDonald Had a Farm. She cannot, however, rid you of the jitters on recital day. Thereby hangs a tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Montana: the Recital At Marge's House | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...course of the evening, Nick and Honey grow to be old hands at George's and Martha's form of verbal warfare/lovemaking through a series of parlor games: Humiliate the Host, Get the Guests, Hump the Hostess, and, finally and most deadly, Bringing Up Baby. None of the characters is spared by the scalpel of these not-so-playful plays. Father-killing, mother-killing, baby-killing--all are dredged up for common consumption...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: A Good Fright | 3/7/1986 | See Source »

...waffles are no longer sold, as they were in our childhood, on every boulevard and each street square." The memory sends Alexander into a lyrical flight: "Wonderfully smelling, thin, fresh waffles, which were twisted, still hot, into cornets and crammed with cream--the very image of waves, heaving hump-backed and white-crested as they reach the shore, to topple, curl and close like the wave of Hokusai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Speak, Memory a Vanished Present: the Memoirs of Alexander Pasternak | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...always worry with a team like Cornell," Carrabino said. "You know they're going to make a run at you, but the key is you can't let them over the hump...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Cagers End Skid, Wallop Cornell | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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