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Word: abracadoomph (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Tories was a dawning hope. CCF Candidate Albert Earl Godfrey, who ran a dismal third, had stood on the campaign's fringes shouting hallelujahs for the promised land of socialism. If Grey North was any indication of Dominion sentiment, the lusty CCF had lost a lot of its abracadoomph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE DOMINION: Tory Triumph | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...fact as plain as the nose on Uncle Sam's face: that the U. S. was going Republican as fast as it decently could. Even more joyful to eye-rubbing GOPsters was another dawning fact: that the magic name of Franklin Roosevelt had lost a lot of its abracadoomph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: G. O. P. Trend | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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