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Word: ain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ain't no laughin' matter. Your reporter hasn't paid the price of a haircut lately. No one in his right mind could have had a grudge against sweet, mellow Mr. Anastasia. Umberto must have been mistaken for the head of the local barbers' union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...blue eyed baby ain't know she father...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: The British West Indies: Federation | 11/15/1957 | See Source »

...twists about in tight-curving, fishtail skirts. She is accomplished in a way all her own, seldom raising her voice, never neon-lighting her effects. With equal seductiveness, she spoofs mechanization in Push the Button, or great-men-turned-to-dust in Napoleon, or sings woman-to-woman in Ain't It the Truth or woman-to-man in Take It Slow, Joe. As a much earthier seductress, Josephine Premice jiggles and jabbers with fine mocking verve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Nov. 11, 1957 | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...single fact in the grim little world of a shoeshine boy came from a youngster of eleven, a veteran of four years on the sidewalk. George sat glumly in front of Briggs and Briggs on an ancient, beaten kit box. "All the shoe stores grab everybody. Some Saturdays I ain't had anybody...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Sidewalk | 11/5/1957 | See Source »

...mother. She said I oughta earn money for stuff. There ain't much else to do." I agreed that he should and that there wasn't, when he shrieked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Sidewalk | 11/5/1957 | See Source »

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