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Word: clog (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Drowning is slowest, most effective, most difficult. Mud and water forced down the well shaft under great pressure clog the subterranean oil channels, back the oil right into the rock formations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Wreck an Oil Well | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...Occidental shoes the school bully razzed him. Nomura pulled off one shoe, beat the bully with it until the shoe was unwearable. But his thrifty mother had declared that the shoes must last six months, so for six months Kichisaburo clumped around in one western shoe, one Japanese clog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Honorable Fire Extinguisher | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Sixteen other German barges were still held, with five Hungarian ones, two belonging to Socony-Vacuum. The Yugoslav permits are a new clog in Germany's supply line wherein the fine hand of British diplomacy may or may not be seen. Should Germany decide to impose her own control of through traffic on the Danube, fireworks might well follow in the Balkans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC FRONT: Rivers Open | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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