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WUSS (continued)

    An OCLC WorldCat search fails to show wuss/wussy until the 1980s.  This
is yet another strong knock against a 1960s "wuss" origin.  Wuss/wussy wasn't
the title of ANYTHING until the 1980s--not the name of a rock band, not the
name of a rock song, not the name of a book, not the name of a poem, and not
the name of a magazine article (PCI database search).
    Personally, I had thought that actor John Belushi coined/popularized
"wuss" in 1978.
     A brief check of the National Lampoon turned up their famous 1977
poster, "Are You a Nurd?"   The poster defined "nurd" and added:  "see:
TWINK, WONK, PINK, TWIT, (greasy) GRIND, FLAMER, WIMP, WEENIE, DINK, CREEP,
FLYER, GEEK, DIP, LEMUR, Q-BALL, SIMP, TWIRP, DRIP, WOMBAT, ZOOMER,
SCREAMER."  Still no "wuss"!
     ENGLISH THROUGH THE AGES (1998) by William Brohaugh has "wuss" under
"Insults" and dates it to before 1885!  That's the wusst!!  The Making of
America database has about 90 "wuss" hits (one example is Artemus Ward's
"From Bad to Wuss" in 1861).

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GREEN MONSTER (continued)

12 July 1965, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, pg. 75--(Under the title "The Wailing
Wall," four letters commented on the June 28 "The Great Wall" story.  Still
no "green monster"--ed.)
16 October 1967, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, pg. 29, col. 3--...Lonborg said, "Now we
get them back up in our Green Monster."
28 October 1967, SPORTING NEWS, pg. 7, col. 1--...a high fly that almost
cleared the "Green Monster" in left field...  (col.2--ed.)  For Rico, at
least, the wall in left field was not a "Green Monster," but a "Jolly Green
Giant."
28 October 1967, SPORTING NEWS, pg. 14, col. 2--The 37-foot high "Green
Monster" cutting across left field is no more astounding than the massive
bleachers that rise to an irregular point in right-center field.

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MISC.

BIG WHOOP (RHHDAS 1981)
Harvard Lampoon, February 1977, pg. 15

I JUST DIED! (probably "just died and went to heaven," RHHDAS to die 1983)
Harvard Lampoon, February 1977. pg. 15

GROSS CITY! (RHHDAS --city 1946, et al.)
Harvard Lampoon, February 1977, pg. 15

WICKED DECENT (CASSELL DOS wicked awesome 1990s)
Harvard Lampoon, June 1977, pg. 6

HOOTERS (RHHDAS 1975, then 1979)
Harvard Lampoon, Summer 1978, pg. 19, "...the girls with big hooters."

BIG ORANGE (RHHDAS Los Angeles 1982)
Playboy, November 1980, "California C's" by Shel Silverstein, Pg. ?--Yeah,
this town's a great big orange, son/ You can grab it hard and squeeze/ But
you'll never get no juice/ Without some California C's.

HOLLYWEIRD (RHHDAS 1979. then 1982)
Playboy, June 1980, pg. 143.