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Word: neighborhood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...street where it is "easy for a militant to keep watch over and to observe any police surveillance: that is, if possible, it should not be near bars, public buildings, shops, institutes, warehouses, etc." Purchases of food and other necessities should be made far away from the neighborhood of the hideout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: How to Be a Terrorist | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...under 65. Did you like the hippie stuff? My daughter is so spoiled that when I wouldn't buy her a moped she bit the mailman. Buncha college kids up there at Harvard, you know? Smart. Think they got all the answers. When I went to college, the neighborhood was so rough that nobody graduated summs. Lemme read you my speech. See how much respect you lack for it. It's called "No Respect #19," and it's based on a routine which put me through college, although it didn't garner me much Respect, especially in light...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: NO RESPECT | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...dumb that she thinks Harvard is a liberal arts college in the Northeast... This reminds me of the time I was walking down the street just over there in Harvard Square recently and I got run over by a car... The car was moving so fast that despite the neighborhood that I come from, I couldn't steal the hubcaps off it. Fortunately, my mother-in-law was driving it. My parents tried to send my to a prep school...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: NO RESPECT | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...these college students are running around these days, you know with the hair and everything, listening to the Beatles and everything--it's getting so you can't tell the boys from the girls...And now my daughter starts telling me about this "pre-marital sex" business. The neighborhood where I grew up was so rough that my wife doesn't even believe in post-marital sex...No Respect...And that's another thing...Kids today are so spoiled...In my old neighborhood, the only kids who were spoiled were the ones who grew up in jars of old mayonnaise...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: NO RESPECT | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...same is true if you go into the neighborhood delicatessen or laundry and ask about the Occupational Safety and Health Act. 'Hey, are you obeying OSHA?' And the guy behind the counter sneers, 'Osha, gosha, forget it!' If the majority of people ignore the law, it will stop the vitality of our country-the voluntarism on which it is built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Who Killed Jack Armstrong? | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

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