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Word: chews (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...three city blocks of buildings and traffic. Some suspected that he had seven-league boots as well. One unlucky trainload of troops who gave Jimmy the raspberry as their train pulled out of Wellington awoke next morning to find him waiting in Auckland (more than 300 miles away) to chew them out. He had grabbed a plane and flown up for the privilege. But the quality that earned Jimmy his real fame in the South Pacific was his voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Pick Up Those Feet | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...head nine times on the ground before the Manchu Emperor. Thus the envoys of all the world acknowledged the supremacy of the Chinese sovereign. "Repugnant . . . degrading . . . inexpedient," the Britons had decided, "required for the obvious purpose of reducing us to a level with missions from Corea and the Lew-chew islands [i.e., Korea and the Ryukyus, including Okinawa] . . . should be refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHANCELLERIES: Kowtow, 1816 | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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