Word: crape
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bureaucrats acknowledged that their staffs could stand squeezing, but last week Americans in Paris complained that riffing had reached the point where it is doing more harm than good. Complaints of insecurity and low morale have reached Congress. One newly riffed employee draped his office with crape and coined a new word for what had happened to him. He had, he said, been Stassenated...