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

...Flushing Meadow, where the Wicked Witch of the East has turned hundreds of juvenile spray-paint vandals into graffiti figures. The yellow brick road leads across the Brooklyn Bridge to the World Trade Center, where Richard Pryor reigns as the Wiz. But before Dorothy gets there, she meets a roarious but cowardly lion (Ted Ross) and a marvelous scarecrow (Michael Jackson), hung up on his pole and tormented by rascally birds. Jackson sings a piteous lament, to the effect that "you can't win, you can't break even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nowhere Over the Rainbow | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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