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Word: chawing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Karachi last week, the gold-starred red flag of Communist China fluttered in the streets, even in front of the ultramodern U.S. embassy. Overhead were strung banners hailing "Chinese-Pakistani Friendship" and welcoming joyfully, if inaccurately, "Chaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: How to Be Friendly Without Getting Seduced | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...Having seen the picture of the champion pointer and read the account of how these dogs are trained, I would now like to see a picture of this dog's owner, complete with all his ribs showing, wearing a spiked collar, having a chaw of tobacco thrust down his throat, with his hind end full of buckshot, and eating partridge liberally laced with long sharp needles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 22, 1963 | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

...banker, Mills was sent to Harvard Law School, returned home to a job in his father's Kensett State Bank. In 1938, Mills ran for the House of Representatives. He learned to hunker on the court house steps, to roll his own Bull Durham cigarettes, and to chaw tobacco without turning green (at least until he got out of the sight of the donor). He had another campaign asset in the comely person of his wife Clarine ("Polly"), whom he still describes as "the best handshaker a man ever married." Mills won easily, and by 1952 had become such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Arkansas Hunkerer | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...comic strip, Dick Tracy. There was Pruneface, a dead ringer for an exhumed cadaver; the Mole, a homicidal man-sized rodent who lived in a burrow; Itchy, who never stopped scratching; Measles, whose complexion resembled an aerial view of the Badlands; and, of course, that bottomless well of chaw juice, B. O. Plenty. Latest entry is Flyface, whose face is always surrounded by flies-and who has a mother and a nephew similarly convoyed. Last week this unsavory trio, causing many an editor to wince, got to be too much for the Atlanta Constitution, one of Tracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Crime & Punishment | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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