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Word: awk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most kids on the narrow Nicetown streets played a form of stickball; not Roy Campanella. His big hands felt awk ward on a slim broomstick. He played honest sand-lot baseball with the Nicetown Colored Athletic Club or the Nicetown Giants. Soon he was good enough for American Legion ball with Loudenslager Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Man from Nicetown | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...Awk!" he exclaimed, doing his derisive imitation of a parrot, "Awk...Band Music...Free Beer...Awk, Awk...Free Beer...Awk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foolish Pride: A Fable | 5/6/1952 | See Source »

...roommate had departed for the reunion at 8:30, leaving Elliott P. Willoughby seated unhappily on his bed facing the open window, making victorious little Awk noises to himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foolish Pride: A Fable | 5/6/1952 | See Source »

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