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Word: pantywaists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Actually, Garner said that the office "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss." After his retirement, he complained that "those pantywaist writers wouldn't print it the way I said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 9, 1974 | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

Wholesome Mélange. Some adults in the gathering carried placards: GOD, GUTS AND GUNPOWDER MAINTAINS LIBERTY and AMERICA WILL SURVIVE TRAITORS, TRASH AND PANTYWAIST POLITICIANS. Behind them, some 300 youthful protesters waded into the Reflecting Pool with shouted slogans, mostly obscene, of their own. For the most part the audience took their antics cheerfully. When police headed off some dissenters making for the speaker's stand, the crowd cheered, leading one protester to say: "My God, they would like to see my head cracked." Nonsense, retorted a bystander: "Just your mouth shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Gathering in Praise of America | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

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