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Word: ravishes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worse. Riot and rebellion are a student tradition in the Western world; university records from the Middle Ages abound in accounts of pitched battles, rapes and homicides. A proclamation of 1269 denounced the scholars of Paris who "by day and night atrociously wound and slay many, carry off women, ravish virgins, and break into houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON NOT LOSING ONE'S COOL ABOUT THE YOUNG | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

Simone: Bardot is great, isn't she? Perfectly frank sexuality. A little heartless, maybe, a little unemotional, but no trickery, no "feminine wiles," no bangles and baubles. That's why she upsets European men so much: she doesn't keep in her place. They can't ravish her. She meets them on their own ground...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: DeBeauvoir: A Review and a Dream | 6/17/1965 | See Source »

...orthodontic appliances, the two racket around Manhattan improvising absurd fantasies derived from Little Women and Fu Manchu. In Central Park they pretend to be "two beautiful white nurses" besieged by Chinese bandits. Merrie pokes a wad of bubble gum into Tippy's mouth. Poison. "When they try to ravish us, bite down," she orders. Then the nurses clamber up an escarpment and discover Sellers and Prentiss attempting a rendezvous on the rocks. From then on they bug Sellers, spoiling assignations and complicating the plot. They even scavenge his discarded cigarette butts and wrap them tenderly in a paper napkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Growing Up in Gotham | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

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