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Word: libber (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defensive. And he fought back with hardly any fight -- with lazy looping topspins and slow shots to the center when straight lines were in order, with lobs when he needed drives. King was playing up to Riggs, teasing the weakness that was his boast. She was simply playing Libber to his Lobber...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: The Sugar Daddy Won't Last All Day | 9/25/1973 | See Source »

...Ladies' Home Journal, taking its cue from the Pudding one supposes, presents a panoply of awards to members of the distaff gender for every accomplishment from business and economy (Katherine Graham, president of the Washington Post Company) to encouraging national beautification (Mary Lasker). Also, Helen Reddy sings her unabashed libber hit, "I Am Woman." CH.7. 10 p.m. Color...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 5/10/1973 | See Source »

...minutes later, during Gill's discussion of how to handle "a libber who challenges you to a wrestling match," several members of the audience interrupted him with cries...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Male Chauvinists Discuss 'Libbers' At Dinner in Union | 3/24/1973 | See Source »

REPRESENTATIVE MARTHA GRIFFITHS, 60, is hardly to be typecast as a Women's Libber, but she was far more effective than better-known lawmakers such as Shirley Chisholm and Bella Abzug in getting the women's equal rights amendment passed in 1970. Mrs. Griffiths, a ten-term Democrat from Michigan, is a tough-minded, independent legislator who has displayed little interest in congressional reform. The first woman ever to sit on Ways and Means, she is one of the most influential members in the fight to strengthen Congress's powers to control and direct Government spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Cast of Characters for the 93rd Congress | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...society to criticize. Certainly the most powerful image in the show is the massive figure of a man clothed in black leather struggling to free himself from the belts and zippers that contain him everywhere. Perhaps it can be interpreted as a commentary on repression or even some avid libber's dream of a future society in which men's mouths and genitals are zipped tight...

Author: By Lydia Robinson, | Title: The Re-Emergence Of Realism | 10/18/1972 | See Source »

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