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Word: wretched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Puts the wretch that lies in woe! In remembrance of a shroud...

Author: By Frederic C. Bartter jr., | Title: Shakespeare and the RSC | 11/24/1969 | See Source »

...find it incredible that a panel of professional people has ignored the almost universally accepted premise that infantile and adolescent sex experience shapes the recipient into either a happy, healthy person or a depraved, miserable wretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 7, 1969 | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...says. "Without Jesus Christ I am nothing. Without Him I am a miserable wretch." The guy leaves...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: The Sinner Sunday Brunch | 9/30/1969 | See Source »

...steps closer to home, established residence in Belgium and promised a return to France soon. In the meantime, he vowed to say and do nothing to blight Belgian-French relations. When reporters asked if he would approach De Gaulle for an amnesty, Georges replied grandly: "I, Bidault, approach that wretch?" Besides, he said, "to have amnesty one must first have been pronounced guilty. For what it is worth, I have never been convicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 11, 1967 | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

...girls themselves are not the most promising lot. Adele, played by Gunnel Lindblom, is a sullen servant wretch whose impending miscarriage climaxes a lifetime of disappointments. Having lost a girlhood lover, she barely tolerates marriage to a handyman she loathes. Angela (Gio Petre) is a young aristocrat, seduced and abandoned by her aunt's former paramour. Agda (Harriet Andersson) is a trollop who took sweets from a lecherous stranger at nymphet age, and has been surpassingly generous to menfolk ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: By Northern Lights | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

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