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Word: hurtin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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They'd better, because aside from three returnees in the line, the Quakers are some kinda hurtin' after the first two yards. Harvard Q.B. Brown had the game of his life passing against Penn last year, and he's already got November 11 circled on this season's calendar. It could very well be the battle for third place in the Ivies...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: The Ivy Outlook: It's Brown and Yale and Pray for Hail | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

Warmer weather and increased production from non-U.M.W. mines had undercut the strike's effectiveness. Moreover, the financial burden of the walkout was finally grinding down the stubborn miners and their families. "I'm hurtin'," confessed Miner Johnny Elkins, 25, of Hernshaw, W. Va., who voted against the last contract offer. To make ends meet, he had been cutting and selling firewood for $35 a truckload. "Now spring's coming," said Elkins, "and people ain't needing firewood." So he traded in his chain saw for a secondhand trail bike and voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: At Last, Peace in the Coalfields | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...overall tone of the album is near despair, and its saddest song is "Stoned at the Jukebox." When Williams sings of "loving that hurtin' music, 'cause I been hurting too," it seems to come from the heart-wrenching realization that Hank Williams, Jr. can never be entirely accepted for his own music, no matter how good that music...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Brand New Country Star | 4/10/1976 | See Source »

...always been famous for our depth," Barnaby said, "but this year we're hurtin' because we haven't been getting the top junior players to come to Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Prepare to Defend Titles | 12/6/1974 | See Source »

Ballads like I've Done It All-tough, honest, "hurtin' songs" from the heart-helped Haggard, now 37, to live one of the classic success stories in the half-century history of country music. He started in the early 1960s as a $40-a-week sideman guitarist. Today he is the king of country who commands $15,000 a concert and in the past decade has sold more than 8 million LP albums and 3.5 million singles worth $44.5 million. The writer of his own words and music, he has won every honor and award that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lord, They've Done It All | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

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