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Word: wimp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...losers, and most children feel the lash of a loser's fury a hundred times a day. To make the point, Author Grant makes Lucia's life a masochistic nightmare in a gallery of Halloween horribles. Her mother is a festering grievance, her father an intellectual wimp, her aunts and uncles high-church lobsters of menacing respectability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disorder and Early Sorrow | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

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