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Word: kissin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Lou be kissin' on you. I see him kissin' on your hand. If you lets him do that, he be kissin' on your cheek and on your mouth. He don't know where to stop. Besides he a funky dude...

Author: By Sarah G. Boxer, | Title: New Orleans Nocturne | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

...spring from the active efforts of many Americans to find something better than "the depersonalization of sex and relationships" that has occurred in recent years. Others think that, in some mysterious way, it is related to a conservative trend in national politics; even Jimmy Carter, with his homespun ways, kissin'-cousin courtliness and studied gentility, is given credit for restoring some sentiment to the land. To many, the search for form and formality, the yearning for tradition and sentiment, are part of the mysterious emotional process by which the nation is healing itself from the bruises and fatigue accumulated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: America's New Sentimental Journey | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...Alabama, Governor George Wallace, 54, easily defeated four rivals, including his wife Cornelia's uncle, former Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 65, to win the Democratic nomination for an unprecedented third four-year term. The paralysis that has confined Wallace to a wheelchair since the attempt on his life two years ago was apparently no political handicap: he got more than 65% of the vote, the biggest sweep in an Alabama primary since 1920. He carried 66 of the state's 67 counties and received surprisingly strong support from blacks, whom he seriously courted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARIES: Polities' High Price | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

Cornelia first met Wallace at a party in the Alabama Governor's mansion when her uncle James ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom was a party-loving Governor and she was only eight years old. "My two little cousins and I were peeping down the stairs in our nightgowns and the Wallaces saw us. They walked up the stairs and talked to us and held us." At the time, Wallace, a state legislator, was married to his first wife, Lurleen, who died of cancer in 1968 after succeeding him as Governor in the same mansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Cornelia: Determined to Make Do | 5/29/1972 | See Source »

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