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

...There were angry words. Then John's father, Lawrence Westberg, went marching over to the home of the boys' father, William Scherrer. Westberg claims he simply shouted, "Goddamn it, Bill, start controlling your kids." Scherrer, on the other hand, swears that Westberg called him a "rotten, f- sonofabitch!" Scherrer called the police, who arrested Westberg. The charge: violating the township's ordinance on disorderly persons, which prohibits, among other things, "indecent, insulting or immoral language in the presence of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Foul Call | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...advancement and money. On the other side, Morty embodies his sister Bessie's values as the self-satisfied capitalist who pats his overfull belly draped in his fancy trousers as he complains, "Every Jew and Wop in the shop eats my bread and behind my back says, 'a sonofabitch.'" To complete the group there is the gentle failure of a father who lives in the past, and the small-time gangster with a heart of gold who can't express his more tender feelings and who is no more a crook than any capitalist...

Author: By Elizabeth Samuels, | Title: I Remember Mama | 7/19/1974 | See Source »

...poor sonofabitch...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Spruce Creek | 2/24/1972 | See Source »

...wrong, so you've just gotta take it on faith when I put it to you like this: me and my old lady we slept outside the Presidio Theater in a fucking SLEEPING BAG the night before our movie opened, don't shit your grits, everybody loves a sonofabitch. that's what you and your goddamn Don't Look Back are all about, aren't they? Face it, man, you step on their heads and they love it, you cut them up in little ribbons, that science student. that Sheriff's Lady and they kiss your ass. I saw Joan...

Author: By Elizabeth R. Fishel, | Title: A Fan's Notes Tarantula | 6/4/1971 | See Source »

...wish to promote combativeness of any form among their slaves. How could they make their other slaves stand in fear if there were a black man amongst them who could equal John L. Sullivan's famous boast, "My name is John L. Sullivan and I can whip any sonofabitch alive...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Rip-off of the Century | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

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