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Word: til (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Advisors have tried to match similar musical tastes when possible. This might sound like a trivial point now, but just wait til your roommate puts on her favorite Shirley Temple's Greatest Hits album. Uncoordinated tastes can be very trying...

Author: By Hannah J. Zackson, | Title: How'd You Get Stuck With A Tuba Player? | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

...night I was just having a few drinks and mindin my business when this guy gets real drunk and comes up to me with this knife and asks me if I wouldn't mind gettin a haircut. Well I sort of sidle away from him til some woman by the jukebox laughs at the man and tells him he ain't man enough to cut that boy's hair. Then he really went after me. He had me from the back and had that knife at my throat when Patty yells at him "You son of a bitch!" and punches...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: In Spudnick's | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...finished," he continued. "That assumes that there are no unknown overflows from unsuspected sewer taps and so on. You can sort of sit in an office and suspect, but it takes a lot of money to go out and find them--so it wouldn't be undertaken 'til after the known overflows are cleaned...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: The Charles: Idyllic Visions of A Clean River | 11/14/1973 | See Source »

...strike--and the occupiers were shouting speeches from the windows. "This is really very exciting," I said to one of the people marching in front of me. "Yes," he agreed, "but I'd still rather be making it with someone." I didn't fully appreciate that exchange 'til I had more of a standard of comparison, but its honesty of mind might well be labeled brutal...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: What Did the Cat Do to the Bathtub Down the Hall? | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

...Dirk plant 755 tomato plants a month ago," she remarked, "and found muscles that I haven't felt in years. By now the corn is about ready; we'll be having the first ears next week. We won't have any strawberries this year, but Til can and jam the peaches from our own trees in the early fall." Mrs. Wise also was keeping an eye on 30 head of polled beef cattle, 100 chickens and a collie named Pabby, but not on a rabbit that was hiding "around some place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 2,000,000 Out There | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

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