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Word: cockiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Botsford, the scrappiest, if not cockiest member of the quartet, will have the majority of the burden upon his shoulders today since he is the quarterback...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Untried Crimson Will Face Jumbos In Season Opener This Afternoon | 10/6/1956 | See Source »

...version of A Streetcar Named Desire. Dancer Youskevitch happily strutted his muscular way through the gloomy scenes, less expressive but considerably more agile than the dramatic version's Marlon Brando. ¶ Dancer-of-all-work John Kriza, 35, turned up in perhaps his most popular part, the cockiest sailor in Fancy Free, which had the audience giggling merrily, and as the lovelorn doll in Petrouchka, which had it misty-eyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lively Museum | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...made on the first anniversary of the Korean war-was both a bluntly worded defense of his foreign policy and a truculent attack on his critics, including Republicans and General MacArthur, who, he charged, "have been trying to separate us from our allies." It was Harry Truman at his cockiest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Blast from Tullahoma | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

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