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Word: asses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eliot House senior, gobbling down his entree last Friday; almost choked on a metal band. He brushed off the band, found that it had the legend "ASS. R.O.P. 95 M 6" stamped on it, and concluded that a banded migrating bird had innocently flown into the central kitchen and been foully done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crow Now House Fare | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...first of the anonymous letters was received in Berlin by a Weimar Republic judge who had just pronounced sentence in an embezzlement case. "You are an ass," the letter read. "You have condemned an innocent man. The guilty party is the director of the bank." The director was investigated and found guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thinking Can Make It So | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

Since neither Byington nor the Christian Century bothered to quote I Kings 13:27, readers rushed to their Bibles. There they read: "And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Danger of Italics | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...really a thrill. They play to win and they don't horse around unless they get about ten points ahead. The Minneapolis Lakers were the only ones to beat them this year until we did in Buffalo. But when they do horse around they make you feel like an ass. You don't like it when you're out there, but when you're not in the game you have to admit they're comical. They get a lot of publicity. Bill Veeck owns a part interest and the papers really play up anything he says. He claims the Globetrotters...

Author: By Peter B. Taus, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 4/13/1951 | See Source »

NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASS...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

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