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Word: kidded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...noticed I was fully dressed, including my shoes, and I also noticed those two letters on my chest. My roommate is this solid Catholic kid from Walpole, always goes to breakfast, always goes to class, and--since the beginning of my degeneration in February--always brings in the mail. He stands at my door, so as to avoid having to walk on my floor (which is always strewn with orange peels and broken glass and old vanilla wafer boxes) and throws my mail at my chest. He's not always good at it, either, which is why we've lost...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Voting Behavior | 5/11/1976 | See Source »

After all, he was a scruffy kid whose only claim to fame was one hit single, "Mr. Bojangles," and that several years before. His voice wasn't much, kind of scratchy and whiney and not very melodic, and the only reason he got any attention at all in Austin was that the competition was so sparse. Besides, his music was sort of eclectic--maybe some would say incoherent--and it didn't really fit into any category. It wasn't exactly country, but it wasn't folk, and it was a long way from rock...

Author: By Steve Chapman, | Title: Runnin' Naked | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...When it came to negotiating, what I wanted was someone to go in there and knock heads," says Messersmith. "If an athlete who has been pampered ever since he was a kid is inserted into a heavy business situation, he gets chewed up." Like many other stars, Messersmith negotiates through an agent, Herb Osmond, who enables his client to confine his pitching to the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEW LOOK FOR THE OLD BALL GAME | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...other hand, if you ask Bruce Collier, assistant dean of the College and Harvard's statistical whiz-kid, how he determines the number of people to crowd in each House, chances are you won't be satisfied with his answer, assuming, that is, that you can understand...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: Packing Them in | 4/24/1976 | See Source »

...used impure thoughts to get herself into the mood for a sexy photograph. The jury decides at once that this modern Jez ebel led this nice-looking lad on. Poor Anne Bancroft, as the prosecutor, rails angrily, but he gets off and a week later has at the kid sister - played by Margaux's real-life sibling Mariel, 14, who appears to have a modest natural gift for acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Marinade | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

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