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Word: quacked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...placed in his teeth and a receiver in his ear-everything indeed but a Captain Midnight magic decoder. Luckily enough, the bad guys never seem to notice when the agent starts chattering to himself or cocks his head to listen to Control Director Burgess Meredith, who still seems to quack the way he did when he played the Penguin on the old Batman series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Viewpoints | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

...longer fly and Bellerophon has become a professor of literature. Barth's heroes have unheroic self-doubts, think dirty thoughts, study poli sci and get high on hippomenes. Zeus, in the form of a high school drop-out, rapes unsuspecting women and Bellerophon is dismissed by all as another quack would-be hero. Heroic love is forever lost in the sexual profusion and confusion of these post-Freudian ancient Greeks...

Author: By Michael Levenson, | Title: Beyond the End of the End of the Road | 10/6/1972 | See Source »

...medicine. As a footnote to the history that Knowles is trying to make, Boston University two months ago gave him an honorary degree. Said the citation: "With the quick clyster of your ribaldry and moral outrage ... you fed physic to your own profession. You purged it. You goosed the quack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor for All Ills | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

...Quack. Like this Roger? Quack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Arthur Bremer's Notes from the Underground | 5/29/1972 | See Source »

...challengers as a top three-year-old, they could be two colts who showed their speed too late to be entered in the Derby. One is his stablemate Upper Case, who recently trounced a bunch of Derby hopefuls in the Florida Derby and the Wood Memorial; the other is Quack, who forced two erstwhile top contenders out of the race at Churchill Downs by whipping them in the California Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: D-Day for Riva Ridge | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

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