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Word: dabs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been a model manservant. As an apple-cheeked footman, he was up at dawn each day to oil the lamps and trim the wicks. No faithful servitor in the vicinity could pad about with such noiseless efficiency or efface himself with such dignity as Patience, and he was a dab at removing the pips from his master's grapes before setting them on table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Impatience of Patience | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...Mark Rothko, was among the first to rebel against it. While the fad was still at its height, he walked Manhattan's 57th Street with his canvases under his arm, vainly trying to interest the dealers in his own new approach to painting. But when the slap and dab of abstract-expressionism began to become a bore, the time was ripe for Individualist Hultberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Latest | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

There's always Spanish Bab and Dab...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Anecotes | 12/4/1954 | See Source »

...Pentecost, a real boogie in the know. He's no square from Chicago. Cayce Pentecost is my man's name; by square-dealing he won his fame. Do this for me on Three-D. When you go to vote on Aug. 5th, do me a real dab of stuff. Lee D is in favor of it, and I know you will be too. Vote for Cayce L. Pentecost . . . He's a real deal, dad . . . You hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Do Me a Real Dab | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...Faculty of Arts and Sciences approves a plan for Junior Year Abroad, the Romance Languages Department will permit students who have passed a "Dab" language course or its equivalent, with a B, to study away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Year Away Gets Boost From Language Dept. | 11/6/1953 | See Source »

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