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Word: nut (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clothing, are their particular enemies, but they are quite happy to break up a synagogue, a Chinese café or an Indian restaurant. The skinheads live for "agro" (causing "aggravation") and "bovver" (street fighting). While they favor the boot as a primary weapon, they also use their heads to "nut" or butt a victim, and whatever other weapons come to hand: bricks, rocks, bottles, knives and razors. "Scar stuff," one skinhead explains. "We don't use weapons that will kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: The Skinheads | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

...economic success of hunter-gatherers has a "women's liberation angle to it." DeVore said. The women produce 80 per cent of the food supply by gathering greens and the nutrient-rich mungongo nut, while the men obtain the remaining 20 per cent by hunting, he explained...

Author: By Paul G. Kleinman, | Title: Science Museum Awards DeVore A $5000 Prize | 5/20/1970 | See Source »

...humor generated from its non-hero, a round little gnome named Guy Grand who indulged in marginal lunacies to relieve the boredom of his billionaire empire. Southern wryly drew the bead on the linearity and arid dullness that typify the lives of everyday Americans by dropping a rich nut in their midst...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Golden, | Title: The Moviegoer The Magic Christian | 3/13/1970 | See Source »

...even. As Warner's President Ted Ashley puts it, "If you get hurt with the $15 million films, you get de-balled." Though his $20 million Hello, Dolly! may nose into the black eventually. Fox Board Chairman Darryl F. Zanuck confesses that he would be some kind of nut to launch such an extravagant film today. "Once you're over the $4,000,000 category," he figures, "you're sticking out your chin." Paramount and MGM are, with few exceptions, enforcing a $2,000,000 limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Will There Ever Be a 21st Century-Fox? | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

...Dick Clark used to hand out big green buttons with white lettering on his show, which was sponsored by Beech-Nut Gum. What four-letter word was printed on the buttons...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach and Bruce L. Regan, S | Title: A Wee Mo Weppa: The Crimson Oldies Quiz | 2/6/1970 | See Source »

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