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Word: screams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United Mine Workers' newly elected president, Arnold Miller, has taken office in a union wracked by scandal but vows to "get tough with the operators until they scream." Miller's tough approach consists of demands for a 20 per cent wage hike, higher safety standards and a rise in the ante contributed by mine operators to the Union pension fund from $.80 to $2.40 per ton of coal. These benefits would increase the industry's manpower costs by only 50 per cent, while coal prices have doubled in the last four years. Miller is threatening the coal industry with...

Author: By Lawrence B. Cummings, | Title: A New Era For Mine Workers | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...forced his way into the room of a Radcliffe student at Kirkland House around midnight Saturday and attempted to rape her. The assailant, however, fled when she began to scream...

Author: By Daniel Rabinovitz, | Title: Police Didn't Inform Hall Of Kirkland Rape Attempt | 10/15/1974 | See Source »

Devine quickly discovered that Green Bay has a peculiarly personal way of taking out its football frustration. Fans started to scream insults at Devine's family as they sat in the stands, an ordeal that continues today. The Devine phone started ringing in the middle of the night as anonymous callers registered their complaints in obscene language. Now, on weekends, cars frequently pass the house with horns honking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Haunted in Green Bay | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

Imagine how the garbage people will scream when they learn that you say "All people are both straight and gay if they'd let themselves be," or "The energy American men have spent trying not to express bisexuality ... would solve the power shortage." My husband George doesn't know this yet, and I bet he won't take to your interesting suggestion that one of the advantages of anal intercourse between a man and a woman is that the male partner can close his eyes and pretend that he's in bed with another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: More Tidings of Comfort and Joy | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...apathy of the spectators. They were ordinary people. 'Don't get angry, Mister,' someone said, 'she's a whore'....The woman was obviously now going through a fit of hysterics. As they were taking her to the police station...she would sit down on the ground every five steps, scream and lift up her clothes, revealing her nakedness, to show the bruises. 'I'm a prostitute, is that why they have to whip me? It's the pimp's fault--I'll show...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Climbing on Words | 9/26/1974 | See Source »

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