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Word: breast (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...absinthe-minded mashing ("So saying, he bent and kissed the soft fullness of her breast. . . . 'Jasper, you're a beast, I'm happy to say,' she murmured dreamily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lay That Pistil Down, Babe | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...Americans speak of first and second joints of chicken because it was once impolite to use the word leg. It was also bad taste to mention the breast of a chicken - hence white and dark meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Three Little Words | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...Clean Breast. In San Francisco, a theater manager took the public into his confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 8, 1943 | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...Italy hung on the wall behind him. Sir Harold wore a freshly washed khaki bush jacket, dark grey riding breeches, brown boots. The purple-red decoration of the American Legion of Merit was pinned above his breast pocket. Crisply he asked for questions, crisply he answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: The RoadsAre Mined | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...invited His Grace of Brisbane. The waitress knew her regular customers and took the young clergyman's order first. Then she turned to Archbishop Wand, wearing his reddish purple rabat (clerical bib) under his clerical collar to indicate that he was in Episcopal Orders. "And now, Robin Red Breast," said the waitress, "what will you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop from the Bush | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

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