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Word: kissin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cousins from Martinsville, Ala., enjoyed a summer's frolic 30 years ago. One of them, Eric, now lives in Italy, and through a pleating of conversations and memories, Spencer reveals a complexity of attitudes and relationships. Not the least of them expands the definition of the down-home term kissin' cousins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Good Hand JACK OF DIAMONDS | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...wonderful and I love him so good." One day Dolly and Burt were shootin' a number called I Will Always Love You, and Burt's parents came in to see it. After the take, Dolly jumped up and shouted to them, "I'm kissin' your boy and I ain't gonna stop just 'cause you're here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Whorehouse goes Hollywood | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

Dolly Parton, 35, on why she had her romantic scenes beefed up in the film version of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas: "If you think that I'm going to be in a movie with Burt Reynolds and not get in a little huggin' and kissin', you're crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 25, 1981 | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...Adviser, Richard Allen, has promised that his office would return "the functions of formulating and implementing policy" to appropriate departments. That vow, if kept, would go a long way toward ending the who's-in-charge confusion that at tended U.S. policymaking during the Vance-Brzezinski and Rogers-Kissin ger years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Rebuild the Image | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

Alabama. Ask any Alabaman. How could the son of "Kissin' Jim" Folsom, the state's popular former Governor, fail to win a statewide election? But that is what happened when "Little Jim" ran up against retired Admiral Jeremiah Denton, 56, who was riding a surge of Southern patriotism. Denton, who spent 7½ years in a North Viet Nam prison after his plane was shot down, went on the air waves with the warning: "Our military is in the worst shape it has been since George Washington walked around barefoot at Valley Forge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Reagan Gets a G.O.P Senate | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

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