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  • This lady looks like one a them hippies I seen on Miss Leefolt's tee-vee.†   (source)
  • All those hippies, all those days of protest songs and "sexual freedom"; remember that?†   (source)
  • As if to accentuate the collegiate atmosphere, two longhaired hippies hurled a Frisbee back and forth while enjoying Mahler's Fourth Symphony blaring from a dorm window.†   (source)
  • The jungles outside Hanalei town had been taken over by a strange breed of hippie surfers.†   (source)
  • Half the people who studied botany were hippies who thought they could return to some natural world system.†   (source)
  • Miss Ryan had come to Kennet from a Catholic school and taken over the art department from two ex-hippies who had been fired when the kiln exploded.†   (source)
  • The next time we went out was Halloween that same year 1999, we went to the Smith Farm and we all dressed up that year, me and Nancy were hippies, A was Belle from Beauty and the Beast, and my youngest daughter was Blue from Blue's Clues.†   (source)
  • All right, so my mom was something of a hippie when I was a kid.†   (source)
  • She was furious that some "Hippie" teacher had turned her in for child abuse.†   (source)
  • She tells him she was raised on a commune in Vermont, the child of hippies, educated at home until the seventh grade.†   (source)
  • Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer, (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.†   (source)
  • In his robes and sandals, Zeus looked like a really buff, really angry hippie.†   (source)
  • Easy enough for her to sit back comfortably in her hippie armchair and ramble about extracurricular activities and open doors.†   (source)
  • HIPPIE FOOD The TV dinner was made by a company called Cascadian Farm.†   (source)
  • Every fairy hippie in the northern hemisphere will be dancing around the Lia Fail at the full moon.†   (source)
  • She became a complete hippie before our astonished eyes, dressing in beads and berets and wearing sweet-smelling oils that, she said, gave you certain powers.†   (source)
  • Ruth had just written about going to Haight-Ashbury with friends and meeting some hippies in the park who offered them a smoke.†   (source)
  • They were former hippies, now New Agers; they believed in massage, fresh-baked homemade bread, and the Dalai Lama.†   (source)
  • They sound kind of like hippies. t "The connection has been made before, but it is faulty in many ways.†   (source)
  • He said he was an artist, although I found out later he was nothing but a hippie dope-fiend dirty bird who had been washing dishes in an Estes Park restaurant for the last couple of months.†   (source)
  • The hippie midwife led Mom inside and Dad asked me if I wanted to come, too.†   (source)
  • "Sounds like some kinda hippie," his mother had said when Brenda, who had been in seventh grade last year, described Miss Edmunds to her.†   (source)
  • "Hello hippie," they said, twenty-five years too late.†   (source)
  • Hippies, travellers.†   (source)
  • There's a man a few cabins away, a taciturn fellow, a hippie dropout of the Grizzly Adams, homemade-granola variety—full beard and turquoise rings and a guitar he plays on his back deck some nights.†   (source)
  • There were rumblings from the beatniks and early hippies at this time about "the system" and the square intellectualism that supported it, but hardly anyone guessed how deeply the whole edifice would be brought into doubt.†   (source)
  • One shop specialised in hippie stuff, while another had war medals and photos of soldiers in the desert.†   (source)
  • The Romantics were not unlike the hippies a hundred and fifty years later.†   (source)
  • He knew most of the people in and around the Hollow thought of his family as the weird hippies.†   (source)
  • They were a motley group: the conservative frat guy types in tuxedos and their dates in fancy prom dresses, the new hippies in Indian paisleys, jeans and sneakers, and maybe for flare, an incongruous bow tie.†   (source)
  • He's a lawyer, not a producer or manager or musician or anything, and he wears a suit everywhere (even to the pool in the summer), but Lindsay claims he's secretly a hippie stoner.†   (source)
  • None of the throat-burning yard twigs you cop from hippies which makes you jumpy.†   (source)
  • Not, that is, the actual source of the name—that much is usually obvious: there's the Bible, there's the huge cluster of traditional English and Germanic and Italian and French names, there are princess names and hippie names, nostalgic names and place names.†   (source)
  • Carol and Lou were different from my former-hippie parents: they were 1950s high school sweethearts who predated the counterculture.†   (source)
  • During the Vietnam War, he was a conscientious objector, and there is still something of the '60s hippie about him, like the Mao cap he sometimes wears over his braided yarmulke.†   (source)
  • Matt knew this was some kind of mantra, a thing hippies chanted in Central Park, but could it also be the motto of the 131st Aviation Company?†   (source)
  • He had the shaggy appearance of a hippie, a look he cultivated after serving in the Navy during the Vietnam War.†   (source)
  • He half expected flower children and hippies to step out of the fog.†   (source)
  • He wasn't an overly sensitive guitar-playing hippie.†   (source)
  • The dark-haired hippie turned and spotted his gun.†   (source)
  • My high school teachers were ex-hippies and Vietnam vets.†   (source)
  • The paper sent a long-haired hippie-looking photographer named Joe Wailes along, to record the death throes of the gator on film.†   (source)
  • When she and Frank went back and sat down, Joe was telling Grace about a hippie woman who lived farther up on the mountains.†   (source)
  • She won scholarships to Vassar and Barnard, but instead she chose a school of hippies with no future, delicate men with women's lips and a dissembling in their eyes.†   (source)
  • Clary called Becky's style "hippie-chic"; about half her clothes came from vintage stores, and the other half she sewed herself.†   (source)
  • Hippies.†   (source)
  • We'll be hippies and have a commune and raise chickens.†   (source)
  • You look like a hippie.†   (source)
  • In fact, I look like a pregnant hippie.†   (source)
  • She made fun of Beanie's long velvet coat (it's dark brown and I used to think it was one of Beanie's cooler pieces) and then she started calling Beanie a hippie and saying that she's a pothead (which I happen to know is untrue).†   (source)
  • THE SIXTIES/HIPPIES†   (source)
  • Hippie freaks.†   (source)
  • A return to natural fabrics—made from the same materials with which our ancient ancestors wove their loincloths—in the seventies brought fashion full circle, when hippies revealed other uses for hemp than those popularized by the beatniks of the decade before…although the most popular use for it is still very much in style on college campuses.†   (source)
  • His dad says she used to be a hippie, but of course he's kidding.†   (source)
  • And she did have some granny glasses, dark-green glass in rectangular wire frames; "Like a hippie," she said, while rearranging her paper flowers in one of those melted and stretched-out Coke bottles.†   (source)
  • —But he's a hippie, not some kind of hardcore salesman type, he said, then appeared worried he'd offended Alan.†   (source)
  • Hippies that moved up for the cheap land and libertarian approach.†   (source)
  • "Hippie," she said.†   (source)
  • Those of us who had long hair or a beard were labeled hippies, scum, and the pits.†   (source)
  • Look at that hippie with the flag sewed to his butt.†   (source)
  • He remembered the word for them: hippies.†   (source)
  • I've pored over grainy sepia pictures of long-dead relatives in babushkas; black-and-white snapshots of distant cousins in crisp white linen suits, soldiers in uniform, ladies with beehive hairdos; Polaroids of bell-bottomed teenagers and long-haired hippies, and not once have I been able to detect even the slightest trace of August's face in their faces.   (source)
    hippies = members of the counterculture that first became prevalent in the early 1960's in San Francisco -- associated with long hair, illegal drugs, casual sex, and opposition to violence.
  • She's not much of a hippie, but she has that whole free-spirit vibe."†   (source)
  • Despite the elder-hippie vibe, she was so attractive that I assumed we must be related.†   (source)
  • The middle-class boy, the hippie kid, and the drunk's son.†   (source)
  • He wore a floppy leather hippie hat and smoked hand-rolled cigarettes in the student smoking lounge.†   (source)
  • It was the only place in the cabin not in Hippie Zeus's line of sight.†   (source)
  • If Momma could hear him, she'd swear he was another Walter Cronkite instead of "some hippie."†   (source)
  • The hippie commune was now under the control of corporate America.†   (source)
  • You got to come to New York, and you can see some black hippies.†   (source)
  • Her parents were "hardly more than hippies."†   (source)
  • The Fountain School was an "alternative learning space," also known as the Hippie School.†   (source)
  • But I tell you what: I taught that—that hippie teacher of yours, Ms.†   (source)
  • If this lady was a goddess, she must've been the goddess of smelly, heavy, useless hippies.†   (source)
  • Either way, it had driven the local hippies crazy with admiration.†   (source)
  • Rednecks to the east, hippies to the west.†   (source)
  • Drake Peyton, Drake Peyton… so you're into that frat-boy hippie rock stuff?†   (source)
  • Get hippies to rub it on their naked bodies.†   (source)
  • Won't stop me from transforming from hippie to soc.†   (source)
  • Were we not just making fun of all the New Agey hippie types in our town two minutes ago?†   (source)
  • "And Juno became a hippie bag lady," Percy noted.†   (source)
  • Callin' me a chicken, hippie?" he shouted with his 100 proof breath curling the hairs on my beard.†   (source)
  • "Well, I hope you're not turning into one of those hippie freaks.†   (source)
  • That was when the hippies started to show up at Gary's place on Town Road No. 3.†   (source)
  • No grimy, hippie, dog-talking freak was ever going to show up Keith Clayton.†   (source)
  • They were supervised by an Iranian American former running coach and a white-bearded quasi-hippie.†   (source)
  • Now it was time to get the hippie loser out of here, before the girls came out.†   (source)
  • Where you from, you ugly whiskered hippie?†   (source)
  • The old hippie lady raised her eyebrows.†   (source)
  • Right now I need to feel more in control, so I stash my hippie clothes deep in my book bag.†   (source)
  • Speaking of hippies, and going commando ….†   (source)
  • Soon the story was out on those strange-looking but hardworking hippies from the Farm.†   (source)
  • All he'd done was carry a hippie bag lady.†   (source)
  • Now you ain't one of them hippies, aw ya?†   (source)
  • Over by the window, sitting on a three-legged stool, was the shriveledup mummy of an old lady in a tie-dyed hippie dress.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, we did most of our athletic stuff inside, so we didn't have to jog through Tribeca looking like a bunch of boot-camp hippie children.†   (source)
  • The first time had been in the dusty attic of the Big House, where the spirit of Delphi slept inside the body of a mummified hippie lady.†   (source)
  • Clichés and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be.†   (source)
  • Hippie place.†   (source)
  • His home above Hippie Cove was a windowless hovel, which he built without benefit of saw or ax: "He'd spend days," says McKinney, "grinding his way through a log with a sharp stone."†   (source)
  • Look at the silly hippies!†   (source)
  • I was angry with Owen for manipulating me into taking Geology, the true nature of which was concealed—at the University of New Hampshire—in the curriculum catalog under the hippie-inspired title of Earth Science.†   (source)
  • What are you, some kind of hippie now?†   (source)
  • When mom graduated she moved to Planet Central for anyone in the hippie, surf, and weirdo scene: Ocean Beach.†   (source)
  • From Grand Junction, I slept, until our layover in Denver, an hour and sixteen minutes, just as the sun was going down — where Popper and I ran and ran, for sheer relief of being off the bus, ran so far down shadowy unknown streets that I was almost afraid of getting lost, although I was pleased to find a hippie coffee shop where the clerks were young and friendly ("Bring him in!" said the purple-haired girl at the counter when she saw Popper tied out front, "we love dogs!†   (source)
  • Sure, if you liked sleeping in a cold temple by yourself with Hippie Zeus frowning down at you all night.†   (source)
  • The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final analysis "freedom" is a purely negative goal.†   (source)
  • A damn white hippie.†   (source)
  • She spent her days developing her skill in the large waves and her nights around a campfire with many other surfing expatriates and hippie characters who had migrated to the shores of Kauai. ladybug and tunas get acquainted†   (source)
  • Most of the residents of Hippie Cove were, like me, summer squatters who'd come to Cordova hoping to score high-paying fishing jobs or, failing that, find work in the salmon canneries.†   (source)
  • Once a hippie commune in Washington State, Cascadian is now an industrial organic brand owned by food giant General Mills.†   (source)
  • Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy.†   (source)
  • Finally, by accosting strangers for directions (rosy housewives with armloads of flowers, tobacco-stained hippies in wire-rimmed glasses), I retraced my path over canal bridges and back through narrow fairy-lit streets to my hotel, where I immediately changed some dollars at the front desk, went up for a shower in the bathroom which was all curved glass and voluptuous fixtures, hybrid of the Art Nouveau and some icy, pod-based, science fiction future, and fell asleep face down on the…†   (source)
  • A hippie!†   (source)
  • From our brief conversation I deduced that I had just met the celebrated eccentric whom the locals called the Mayor of Hippie Cove, a reference to a bight of tidewater north of town that was a magnet for long-haired transients, near which the Mayor had been living for some years.†   (source)
  • Sniffing "hippie" and "peacenik," even though the Vietnam War was over and it was supposed to be OK again to like peace, the kids would make fun of Miss Edmunds' lack of lipstick or the cut of her jeans.†   (source)
  • He looked at Hippie Zeus.†   (source)
  • Cascadian started as a kind of hippie commune in 1972, founded by a fellow named Gene Kahn and his friends.†   (source)
  • "That sure could of been true," says the clerk at the Salton City store, "but most people think they bulldozed 'em 'cause the springs was starting to attract too many hippies and drifters and scum like that.†   (source)
  • "All hippies is white," Peewee said.†   (source)
  • Hippies were having none of it.†   (source)
  • He had the same curly hair, shaggy beard, and intelligent eyes—a look somewhere between wild hippie and fatherly professor, except this man's skin was the color of a lima bean.†   (source)
  • I walked past the swings and the jungle gym to what was called the Creative Playground, built by a bunch of hippie parents when I was in grade school.†   (source)
  • But the bearded, glowering face reminded Jason very much of the giant Hippie Zeus in Cabin One at Camp Half-Blood.†   (source)
  • I figured it was just hippie love beads and stuff But when Annabeth turned toward me, she was holding a leather pouch—like a Native American medicine pouch on a cord braided with feathers.†   (source)
  • If my parents had stayed together and grown to be old hippies singing protest songs as they washed dishes after dinner, maybe I would have been different.†   (source)
  • It's sort of a hippie thing.†   (source)
  • He glanced at the hippie kid.†   (source)
  • Before today, if she had thought about him at all, she'd just roll her eyes and imagine some stupid hairy dude in his thirties with a barrel chest and a gross hippie beard, with a lion skin over his head and a big club, like a caveman.†   (source)
  • Jerome was waiting for us in his psychedelic hippie van, which was decorated with Day-Glo Peter Max designs.†   (source)
  • This moron hippie on the stage.†   (source)
  • He led her to Cabin One and took her inside, where the huge statue of Hippie Zeus glowered in the dim light.†   (source)
  • With my dad she was a hippie-in all the pictures I'd seen she looked so young, wearing gauzy skirts or frayed jeans, her hair long and black and parted right down the middle.†   (source)
  • "Macy," she said, gesturing down the table to a heavyset guy in a baseball cap, another in an orange shirt, and, at the end, a hippie-looking type with blue eyes and a ponytail, "this is John, Donald, and Philip."†   (source)
  • Nepenthe was busy, filled mostly with good-looking people in their twenties and thirties, but also a sprinkling of aging hippies, some of whom were sixty or more.†   (source)
  • I looked past the float with what was supposed to look like the nativity but instead looked like some hippies in a barnyard; I had decided that I would speak to Perry again if I got the chance, even with Misty right there beside me.†   (source)
  • And Chuckie Wainwright gone to sea, leaving a woman and child behind, a hippie Christian cluster, barefoot with beads, and Marvin tracking him ship by ship.†   (source)
  • I was constantly surprised by who bought from us: a burned-out hippie, a well-dressed woman, a dull guy you'd never look twice at, a man in a fake wig and mustache, a preppie college kid.†   (source)
  • Was I saved or was it only a fabulous coincidence, one that kept me fully clothed (hippie style) but shivering in the pale afternoon?†   (source)
  • His human discontents were muted in the icy mists and the whole blowing otherworld of whiteouts and radio disruptions and unrelenting winds and total cold and objects that did not cast shadows and numerous freak readings on compasses and radar scopes and the BUFF that crashed on an ice sheet with live nukes aboard, anomalies of the eye, the mind, the systems themselves, and the experience made him sense the ghost-spume of some higher hippie consciousness.†   (source)
  • Hippie freaks could ruin the place.†   (source)
  • It was some stoner hippie idea.†   (source)
  • Marvin was not a night person but he knew one place he might take her, one street really, that's all it was, called the Float, out near the old hippie district, shops that came and went overnight, buildings without house numbers, an area catering to very select desires that changed with the phases of the moon.†   (source)
  • They were in the middle of nowhere out here, and the last thing he wanted was a bunch of hippie losers ruining this spot for the coeds.†   (source)
  • The hippies and the rednecks.†   (source)
  • She looked like a hippie who'd been kicked to the side of the road maybe forty years ago, where she'd been collecting trash and rags ever since.†   (source)
  • Not hippie today.†   (source)
  • They came out of the park at 90th Street, a band of hippies on a candlelight march, with flutes, drums and tambourines, about fifty chanting people, and a man with a needle stuck in his protruding tongue, and a woman with a snake around her neck, and a haze of pungent smoke that had the whiff of some congenial misdemeanor, and there were kids walking along and babies in backpacks and slings, and the marchers chanted a sort of hummed syllable, a thing with a twang, it sounded to me like…†   (source)
  • The city was the incubator for the hippie culture: it had the lure of unrestricted dope, free love, ear-crushing electric music, and LSD.†   (source)
  • Most just swerved and looked irritated, as if they had to deal with a lot of ratty teenagers carrying old hippie women across the freeway here in Berkeley.†   (source)
  • Nobody, but nobody, messed with Keith Clayton, especially not some hippie drifter who thought he could put one over on him.†   (source)
  • He hadn't had a chance to look for that hippie loser on Monday morning because of some papers that had to be served out in the county, but he found out the guy had been staying at the Holiday Motor Court.†   (source)
  • At one time he would have thought I was a mindless, hippie bum for questioning whether our homeland was still any good.†   (source)
  • Back in the Graham County seat, the citizens were ready to run the damn Yankee hippie out of town one way or the other.†   (source)
  • Let tha hippie fella do his thang.†   (source)
  • Ya got a beard and ya may even be a hippie, but"—he wrestled for words and finally finished—"but thar's somethin' bout ya …. um-m-m-m ya got guts standin' up to me and tha boys here and that's all right!"†   (source)
  • We got some hippies coming to this island now Those California boys are just hippies that get their hair cut before they come here.†   (source)
  • But the yellow and green land sliding by, so beautiful in the hippie's eyes, had gophers and gopher-snakes in it, chickens and foxes, cannibalistic fish in every creek, and in a month the bright green trees would be red with death.†   (source)
  • Goddam Communist hippies.†   (source)
  • Hippies.†   (source)
  • Marla Gaines: And that's my mom, Marla, the ex-hippie.†   (source)
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  • After reconsideration, she had come back for the "Hippy-Dippy Says Love" button too.†   (source)
  • "Gah," Oedipa screamed, and fled, Nefastis snapping his fingers through the dark rooms behind her in a hippy-dippy, oh-go-ahead-then-chick fashion he had doubtless learned from watching the TV also.†   (source)
  • She approached my bedside, a hippy broad with dark hair and big arms.†   (source)
  • My favorite was a pink pin that said "Hippy-Dippy Says Love," which I'd found in the school parking lot but had had to promise my mother I wouldn't wear.†   (source)
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