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Word: oles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amoco station across the railroad tracks from the peanut-warehouse office is the only public place in Plains, Ga., where you can drink beer. The suds flowed furiously last Monday night, and the good ole boys were having a great ole time: Billy Carter, 39, owner of the gas station and younger brother of the President-elect of the U.S., was throwing the party he had promised, win or lose. And, for the second time in two years, Billy had come up a loser. By a 90-to-71 margin, he was defeated for the mayoralty of Plains by Incumbent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Little Brother's Loss | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...Nineteen Eighty; ole, Miss Fickett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seven Lords A-Leaping... and Other Seasonal Matters | 12/17/1976 | See Source »

...Journalism. At its best, New Journalism had it all over straight reporting because it was an epiphenomenon itself, sort of unconventional, just like the people and stories it covered, and the best of its practitioners was Tom Wolfe. When Wolfe wrote about stock car racers and the good ole boys around them, or Las Vegas with its plasticine madness, or Phil Spector, his was the most accurate stuff around, because he had the sense that what he was describing was now and new and likely to last about as long as confetti after a parade...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Epiphenomenous Bosh | 12/16/1976 | See Source »

...folks. You see, I've got this problem about what to do on Saturday afternoon. As everybody east of Blue Hill Ave. knows, Harvard's football team is playing Brown in the season's biggest Ivy League game. So why don't I just go on down to the ole Stadium and catch the game...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Sadists vs. Ivies | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

...room at the crucial moment, hunting for the reverend's rubber duck. Meanwhile, Loretta's oversexed husband Charlie-shot in the groin in a tussle with Jimmy Joe's dad, Merle Jeeter-prepares stoically for television's first testicle transplant. As for good ole Merle, he becomes a "born-again" politician. Also tripping into view will be a Miss Tippytoes, a glamorous CB radio freak who Mary thinks has a handle on her husband Tom. Then there is Gore Vidal, who visits Fernwood to see if there is a book in the larger meaning of Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Fernwood Follies | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

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