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Word: bootlicking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...situation is far worse in Italy. There all the correspondents bootlick Prime Minister Mussolini or are thrown out. In Spain the censorship of Dictator Primo de Rivera is theoretically absolute, but the indolent Spanish temperament allows correspondents to smuggle out pretty much what they please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Threat Executed | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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