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Word: wimp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When the ball was in a puddle we just kicked and kicked and kicked until it was out," Brynteson said. "And when everyone is trying hard on a team, you're not going to be a wimp...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Women Booters Down Bears | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...hotel is about as festive as Disney World in a hail storm; the characters are so familiar you can turn down the volume and speak their lines yourself. In addition to the two romantic leads (Larry Breeding and Stephanie Faracy), the kids include one fat social retard, one bookish wimp and one wealthy, lock-jawed Wasp. For added measure the writers have stirred in a cook who re-enacts John Belushi's samurai routine and a maitre d' who resembles Danny De Vito's dispatcher from Taxi. Everyone yells a lot, usually about food and sex. Adults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1979-80 Season: II | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...fuckin' preppie wimp," Little Joe blurted and stomped away to his room where he would play Ramones and smoke dope until he was lulled to sleep...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Of Wolves and Men | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...governor, pleading a busy schedule, refused to meet with student demonstrators, who chanted "King is a mega-wimp" Wednesday. "We just wanted to jar him up a bit. Nothing ever gets through," Christopher R. Agee '79, one of four protesters police allowed to reach the governor's office before being turned away, said later...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Boston Nuclear Fallout | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

...down to the park with him and play for an hour every night," she remembers. "If I told him I didn't want to play, he'd call me a 'wuss' or a 'wimp' and drag me out anyway...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: St. Louis: Modesty Tempers Success | 11/15/1978 | See Source »

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