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Word: bomberoo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

Seuss. His latest epic, The Butter Battle Book, is a parable of the nuclear age. Two peoples, the Yooks and the Zooks, find themselves in such fierce-and pointless-confrontation that each is ready to drop the fatal Bitsy Big-Boy Bomberoo on the other. They are very similar, these Yooks and Zooks. They seem to differ in only one way: one side takes its bread butter-side up, the other butter-side down. Yooks, Zooks. East, West. Butter-side up, butter-side down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Moral Equivalent of... | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

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