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Word: slimed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dovetail: Al is profane, athletic, gregarious; Birdy is decorous, wispy and fixated on a world that is real but more acutely visible to him than others. "One hundred billion birds," he muses, "fifty for every man alive and nobody seems to notice. We live in the slime of an immensity and no one objects. What must our enslavement seem to the birds in the magnitude of their environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flights of Fact and Fancy | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...rage, however, that binds young and old alike in the refugee camps. Holding on to the reins of his donkey, his shoes caked with slime from open sewage drains, Mahmud Mustafa Magded, 45, shouts: "Camp David, Israel, Egypt, Syria, they're all the same. I want to go back to my country, to Ashkelon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: On the Strip: Homeless in Gaza | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...rent water babies need not despair. A drop to popular prices is likely if California hot tubs find a mass market. That's what happened with calculators and waterbeds, both expensive innovations which now sell for a fraction of their original price. Such exotic headaches as cleaning redwood slime out of the water pump and dealing with houseguests who refuse to leave the tub may become staples of cocktail party conversation, if hot tubs can be successfully exported to colder climes than California...

Author: By Adam W. Glass, | Title: Hot Tub Hedonism | 2/4/1978 | See Source »

...Laugh-In, Ol' Blue Eyes goes after splashier revenge-by pouring a can of green paint (actually, dyed Cream of Wheat cereal) over a Rona Barrett lookalike. The victim: Actress June Gable, who plays a gossip-caster named Ms. Groana on the show. "He dumped this bucket of slime and let it shlunk all over me," said Gable. "Then he came down from the scaffold and said, 'Hey, babe, are you all right?' " Gable had no hard feelings over the tint job: "He was very sweet and attentive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 31, 1977 | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...students operating the station broadcasted "licentious slime and nauseating verbiage, "FCC Judge Walter C. Miller said last Monday...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: WXPN to Lose License; FCC Charges Obscenity | 4/14/1977 | See Source »

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