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Word: bookwormish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bookwormish, overfond of baker's buns. His father, a St. Louis lawyer, christened him Edward H. O'Hare. But the neighborhood dubbed him "Butch." Hard-muscled, no longer fat, he was still "Butch" when he took his diploma at Annapolis, then went on to Pensacola to train as a U.S. Navy flyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Butch O'Hare | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

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