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Word: brontosauri (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pool peddler is happy until he chances upon Muscle Beach, a Pacific sand pile on which barbell brontosauri lovingly cultivate their abs (abdominal beef), glutes (backsides) and pects (chest muscles). There he spies the girl of his dreams-but alas, she loves a weight lifter. Can the underpected salesman sunder this pair? Sure he can, if he will only assert his baritoned intelligence against the rival falsetto. A falsetto, of course, is-in the definition of Poet-Punster Mark Van Doren-a guy with a false set o' values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Among the Abs & Pects | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

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