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Word: takin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been taking the pictures?" they asked. It is often hard to find a good-sounding answer in these situations; Ted prudently said nothing. "What you think you taking a picture of? Why you always takin' pickturs?" No reply...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Southern Schizophrenia: | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

...tattered themes by understating them rather than by reviling them. In Punky's Dilemma, in their latest album, Bookends, they even take up the subject of draft evasion, but gently, gently. The song begins innocently: "Wish I was a Kellogg's Cornflake floatin' in my bowl takin' movies/ Relaxin' awhile, livin' in style, talkin' to a raisin who 'casion'ly plays L.A." And it ends on a note of tolerant satire: "Old Roger draft-dodger leavin' by the basement door/ Everybody knows what he's tippy-toeing down there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: What a Gas! | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...Hold on a minute. (Pause, muffled voices. Then:) Well, yeah I know what it is, but I'ma pikcha-takin man, see, anduh...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: The Flip Side | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...James Bond, kid. I'm the picha-takin man for the real sliks, Playboy's Life, and I wanna take a pikchov...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: The Flip Side | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

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