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Word: thonged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twitchedy, twatchedy, flippedy, flappedy, flong your own thong tong, snickety poo. Griff, graff, gobble, gobble, ghrrr, gar, gorrr, goo goo goo. Wap, wap, flaptrap, wonk wonk weee. Zap, zap, backtrack, zonk zonk zeee. Wish I may, wish I might have the wish I wish tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memento Morey | 11/20/1965 | See Source »

...fashion staple like a poncho, a tentlike affair that lends a certain army-surplus charm to fragile freshmen huddled beneath. University of Wisconsin girls wear headbands instead of scarves, are so addicted to sandals that a local shoe repairman declared himself a sandal-maker and set up shop a thong's throw from campus. For trips to town, the newest thing is a suit with culotte-like pants instead of a skirt. There is also, unaccountably, a sudden passion for pierced ears among otherwise sensible girls in the Ivy League area (four out of every five coeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Back to School | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...first ax made by the first caveman may have been purely and unesthetically functional. The second probably made some attempt at cleaner line or tidier thong. Since then, artists have gone ever more deeply into producing functional objects of greater grace, of design that encourages use. At the 13th Triennale of industrial design, now on in Milan, designers from all over the world are showing that they can offer mass-made items as commonplace as axes yet beautiful enough to be passed on as heirlooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Unframed Beauty | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

Prayer by the Squirt. When life is gone, mourning begins. Its variations are endless. Until recently, the Dakota Indians slashed themselves with knives, sometimes even killed themselves in transports of bereavement. The Ovimbundu simply wear a leather thong on the left wrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How the Other Half Dies | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

...proper courting gift for a Dhagestan maiden was a dozen or so severed male right hands, strung on a thong. Imaginative bloodletting was much admired; Afghanistan's rulers executed prisoners by tying them across the muzzles of cannon (until Western diplomats complained of flying flesh) and the Shah of Persia delightedly invented another sort of extinction: extracting the teeth and hammering them into the skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Abdul v. Ivan | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

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