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Word: roach (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...Verne was screaming because she saw a bug. It wasn't a roach, because La Verne isn't afraid of roaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Sampling of a Ghetto Reader | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...Verne been screaming 'cause she seen a bug. It wasn't no roach either 'cause La Verne, she ain't scared of no roach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Sampling of a Ghetto Reader | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...pattern of exploitation worked because artists had nowhere else to go. There was no space uptown. Greenwich Village was already turning into the Skag Alley it now is, a tureen of thieving junkies and grimy plastic bars among the too-expensive brownstones. The East Village, with its tiny roach-filled apartments and manic adolescents shooting speed in the air shaft, was a dismal alternative. As for Brooklyn or Queens, one artist remarked: "You might as well work in Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Last Studios | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

well boss i was crushed by the news the n y daily news to be exact rolled up and wielded by a janitor but my soul came back again as a roach i must be doing something right

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Golden Nonsense | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

...other numbers like the animation seemed to be saccharine rather than pungent but as mehitabel is wont to say wotthehell wotthehell mine not to complain i am just a roach on the loaf of life glad to be recalled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Golden Nonsense | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

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