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Word: mum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kept mum on sex rock. In 1971, when there were complaints about such suspect drug songs as White Rabbit, Puff the Magic Dragon "and One Toke Over the Line, the FCC drew up guidelines on the airing of dope lyrics. The agency is impotent about sex, however. Explains Jason Shrinsky, the lawyer who represents 200 radio stations before the FCC: "Sex is so subjective. The FCC doesn't know what standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sex Rock | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...Shaw Taylor, a Peter Sellers lookalike, now hosts Junior Police 5 as well. He cautions tots to consult their parents before taking action, however. The Yard, it seems, does not want a raft of naive informers telling them that the stolen stereos on the show are stashed down in Mum and Dad's basement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: To Catch a Thief | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...paramour ("It's just part of the job," Daltrey maintains); later he sprouts a 10-ft. penis. "A one-foot penis is dirty, but ten feet is funny," says Roger loyally. "There's nothing really all that bad in this movie. I'll let my Mum and kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rock Bottom | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

...take the strongest possible objection to the sentence you have published about me in the Registration Issue of The Harvard Crimson ("Harvard Stays Mum on Greek Bequest"). The sentence reads, "Kaiser would neither confirm nor deny the report..." That is a deliberately misleading sentence, inasmuch as your use of "would" implies that you asked me to confirm or deny a report that the Greek government had given Harvard one million dollars. The simple fact is that your reporter never even mentioned such a rumor in either of our two telephone conversations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A QUESTION OF WORDS | 9/19/1975 | See Source »

...television interviews, she willingly posed for an official birthday photo, and her royal family planned a black-tie dinner at Buckingham Palace complete with Scottish pipers, a three-tiered birthday cake and, rumor had it, some spoof gifts from Grandson Prince Charles. As one admirer explained, the "Queen Mum" has always enjoyed a good "legpull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 11, 1975 | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

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