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Word: kidding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kid snapped off my antenna while I was parked for a mere fifteen minutes in East Cambridge the other day. Before that someone backed into the front of the car while I was upstairs asleep. They wiped out a headlight and some other stuff. They rip my bumper stickers off my bumper if they don't like them And I rip off theist...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: In the Streets Cars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

Henry watched her as she walked back to her place, absent-mindedly picking her way over wadded bodies and coffee cups and discarded newspapers. "I hardly know her, poor kid. She used to come in every once in a while, then she got onto this guy in the band and I saw her quite a lot." She's the kind of girl that Henry can be friendly to but she's not his type. She's a sucker with a heart of gold...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Shooting with the Stars | 12/10/1969 | See Source »

...over. "But some guys were still shooting people who were running around the village. There were big groups of bodies lying on the ground, in gullies and in the paddies." He said he saw a boy standing among the bodies of 15 adults. "There was just this little kid there, this little boy, and I looked over and saw Medina [the company commander] shoot him. I don't know why he did it, except that there was a bunch of bodies there?and I guess the boy's mother was one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MY LAI: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...another neighbor, Karl Zaret, Rusty was "a good kid." Zaret adds: "I believe Rusty was just carrying out orders. The boy I knew respected his parents. He listened to what they said. He was a very reserved, quiet boy and very cooperative." Rusty's father, a Navy veteran, sold heavy construction equipment, and business was good. The Calleys had a vacation house in North Carolina, and in high school Rusty had his own car. He was too small for varsity sports ?even now he stands only 5 ft. 3 in. and weighs 130 Ibs.?but he spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Average American Boy? | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Teddy bears kid stuff? Not so, says Peter Bull in his book, Bear with Me, published in England. Give a Teddy to an impressionable child, and the bear has a place in the child's effects and affections for life. Bull, a character actor whose own family of Teddies numbers 14, presents ample and arresting testimony to the fact that he is no oddity but merely one of thousands of thoroughly grown-up people, all dedicated "arctophilists"-friends of the bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Bear Market | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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