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Word: butts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made plans to retire to his farm-to pursue his twin hobbies of raising cattle and painting landscapes-football's Saturday-night round-table exhumed many a Zuppke yarn. Bob Zuppke never lost his "Dutch brogue," is nearly as famed a raconteur as coach. His pet butt used to be Notre Dame's Knute Rockne, of whom he once said: "Everybody vants to know vat Rock puts in his football besides vind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Zup's Setting Sun | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...Requests made of two movie stars by 1,821 fan writers included: a cake of soap, a "piece of gum you have chewed," a cigaret butt, three hairs, a bicycle, and permission to name a pet flea after the star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bagdad-on-the-Pacific | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...Peacock. He said he had not seen her in five years. Somebody asked Spivey if he knew where his potato patch was, near there. When Spivey said he did not, the man said, "You're a God-damned liar" and hit him on the head with the butt of his pistol. The man swung again, missed, hit a white man beside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Judge Lynch Overruled | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...Africa looks like a fat pistol holster, and about where the lower extremity of the butt would nestle lies the British Protectorate of Sierra Leone. This little nook of Empire has suddenly become important-because of its only port...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Africa's Hong Kong | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...eating his breakfast, when a young man he had never seen before came in. The young man took one look at Gabriel Avila Camacho, drew a gun and cried: "I've been looking for you!" Then he began to beat Captain Avila Camacho about the head with the butt of his pistol. Young Avila Camacho seized the gun, turned it on his assailant, shot him dead. Then he drove away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The President's Other Brother | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

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