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Word: screamin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accident!" There is the Frog Boy, and Giant Hong Kong Rats, and a "gen-ewe-ine female cannibal," ominously billed as Zoma the Depraved. And, of course, there is the terrible, eternal Alligator Lady: "She walks, she talks, she crawls on her belly like a reptile, a leapin', screamin', creepin', crawlin' mawnster! She's eleven feet lawng and she's alahv...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State Fair: She Crawls on Her Belly Like a Reptile | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

...inspired by football crowds that "went bananas" during flag-waving numbers at half time and by the emergence of Middle America. "When that man said 'Silent Majority,' he was right. They are silent. Someone has got to make them jump out of their shells and start screamin', because they're just waiting for someone to give them the spark." Mann's inspiration was more personal. "I'm a hamburger," he confesses. "My greatest joy in the world is to sit home on a Sunday afternoon, listen to a patriotic album or album of alma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: So Proudly We Gross | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

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