Word: chantey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...urges the old sea chantey. Last week Commonwealth Statistician S. R. Carver revealed another interesting fact about Australian girls: seven out of every ten of Australia's teen-age mothers in 1951 conceived their first babies without benefit of marriage; 28% of all the year's firstborn children were conceived out of wedlock...
...Chantey After a steady diet of three months of tennis in Australia, Tony Trabert and Vic Seixas, top U.S. amateurs, were obviously fed up. Being fed up, they blew up-and with a resounding bang. The Americans' trouble was twofold:1) they were losing instead of winning, and 2) they were losing in Australia...
...nickel in the piccolo!" cried one of the fishermen. Thereupon, following their song leader, they broke into a high, happy chantey. The Bendix men had never heard anything quite like it before...
...Deacon" Anderson, 26, had worked out a kind of K.P. chantey as he swung his mop. As he explains now: "It's hard to think up words with any sense when you're tired, and I got to spelling...