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Word: chomps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...things like that, Byron makes a face as if he's just finished sucking on a lemon. Jessie, proud of his daughter, but more comfortable with the idea that a woman's place is back in the house trailer cooking up corn biscuits, smiles and takes another chomp on his cigar. Meanwhile. Joe's son Allen, 4, scampers around the trailer on his toy John Deere tractor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Montana: Rolling North with the Wheaties | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

Beware of blind love--it's the very worst kind--It starts with a chomp on the ol' behind From the droolin and snarlin and nasty pink jaws Of an Arabian refugee's seeing-eye dawg...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: "I Got Bit by a Seeing-eye Dog" | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...result is hectic. Under the Defend the Democratic Rights of Oppressed Nationalities banner stands a short and stumpy man. A faded version of the Pillsbury Doughboy dressed in gray cap, jacked and pants, he stomps his feet in cadence with the archings of his eyebrows and the mechanical chomp of his tight-lipped mouth...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: Under A Glumping Sky | 2/4/1975 | See Source »

...thought that wasn't valid," Bennett said. "Anybody can eat glass." After he took an initial chomp out of a bulb, others at the party said they wanted...

Author: By Mark C. Frazier, | Title: Lightbulb Eaters Spread Hobby Here | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...paid for the killing of mustangs. On numerous occasions the U.S. Forest Service held "close-outs" in which it gave ranchers 60 days to round up their own strays on forest service land-and then proceeded to shoot any remaining wild horses. The bureau's rationale: the mustangs chomp up valuable vegetation on Government property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Fight to Save Wild Horses | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

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