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Word: humps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wind sends whirlwinds of dust spinning frantically over the grassless strip of riverbank and single row of Monopoly board houses. Eventually, three or four boats, loaded to the brim, start off down the river to the estuary where the freight boat will dock. As they go behind the hump of sandbars, both water and boat disappear while heads and torsos are still visible. From across the river you are left with the impression of groups of Indians skateboarding along at top speed behind the sandbars, motionless from the waist...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: Indian Summer | 10/16/1974 | See Source »

...Vietnam was concerned," Ford complained to U.S. News and World Report, citing his own support for President Johnson's Vietnam policy "as to objectives" (tactically, he thought the war should be fought more vigorously) as a presumably healthier attitude. "But now that we're over that hump, I feel it's essential that we re-establish the bipartisan approach," he added hopefully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Demonstrate | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...pulled out a flashcard with a picture of a large tank. "I will make the French tanks kill them." Francois wears his overcoat in any kind of weather. It is a size 52, even though Francois is only five feet tall. Part of the extra cloth covers his hump. Another part gets pulled into a sagging pouch on all sides of him by his pockets, filled with symbols of the war somewhere in his past...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: Bombs and Le Bon Dieu | 2/16/1974 | See Source »

...flash of panties or the roundness of a buttock. One soon learns to expect gratuitous shower scenes and absurd double-entendre conversations. The best films are usually unpredictable, but when all roads lead to the bedroom one need not be oracular to foresee what's just beyond the next hump...

Author: By Christopher H. Foreman, | Title: Bare & Barren | 5/10/1973 | See Source »

...stage of Boston's Church of the Covenant, Al Pacino's Richard could be taken for a failed Mafia assassin seeking asylum. The left sleeve of his green knit pullover bunches around some unspeakable wound of a hand. The yarn in the shoulder stretches obscenely over his hump. His cheeks quiver with little tics. His lips pout in private arrangements of humor and rage. When he speaks, Elizabethan English seems to acquire a Sicilian accent: Shakespeare out of The Godfather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Heroic Monster | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

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