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

...knock a wall down the way Big Jim Allit can. Big Jim, a fat-cheeked Irishman, has been a demolition craneman for 27 years. His specialty is battering buildings apart with a 2,800-lb. steel ball. The ball swings from a cable at the end of a 100-ft. boom, and Big Jim, by deftly whirling his crane cab and boom, can send the ball crashing into a target with bull's-eye accuracy. Many a major Eastern wrecking project has had an Allit touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Too Good | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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