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Word: cussed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driven seven miles from his country house at Chartwell, addressed his visitor, with his usual disregard for any language but English, as "Monsoor Mends Fra-a-ance." Then the old British bulldog and the spry little Frenchman drove off in Churchill's limousine to dis cuss the fate of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Agony of Decision | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...University of Maryland, who is running for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, is using a campaign card with a Mencken quote. The card quotes Mencken as having written of Byrd and his performance at the university that "the thing to do with a man of such talents is not to cuss him for doing his job so well; it is much wiser . . . to give him a bigger & better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Dot Dot Dot | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...solid, conservative Republican leader and that v Dwight Eisenhower is a puppet of Americans for Democratic Action. The Congressman plans to run this year on an anti-Administration platform, although he is not yet sure that he would be wise to attack the President personally. Says he: "You can cuss Eisenhower, and people get sore. You can say the Administration stinks, and they cheer." The Kansan voted only about 35% pro-Eisenhower last year, and his showing this year will be about the same. For a while, he planned to vote for the St. Lawrence Seaway. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Mess in Washington | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...Kaiser-Frazer's C-119 contract (see BUSINESS), left his gavel with Vermonter Ralph Flanders and rushed off to the White House. President Eisenhower received Martin, Bridges and seven other Republican House and Senate leaders in the Cabinet Room. He had called them together, he explained, to dis cuss a rider which the Senate Appropriations Committee had unexpectedly at tached to the $1.1 billion appropriation for the Departments of State, Justice and Commerce. The rider proclaimed that, if any aggressor government, i.e., Communist China, should be admitted to the United Nations, the U.S. would forthwith cut off all financial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Shadow of the Red Dragon | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

Bill's most impressive characteristic is his calm. He moves with accurate grace, and his nerves work like a telephone exchange that never gets a wrong number. He never gets excited, never blows up. He almost never uses even the milder cuss words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bill & the Little Beast | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

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