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Word: boors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Will the day come when the U.S. stops coddling this boor and tells him where to head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 10, 1960 | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

...pennies when most people thought they would become worthless. Overnight a man of affairs instead of a lowly leather dresser, he was still despised by the other well-to-do. He was uncouth, uneducated, a prodigious boozer and a shameless wencher. His wife was a shrew, his son a boor, his poor daughter none too bright and also addicted to the bottle. Dexter bought the finest house in town, and sat in it spitting tobacco juice on the carpets and getting drunk every night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee Clown | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

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