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Word: deader (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Barnaby reported that cold courts and a new, deader ball made both the team and singles matches short and somewhat unexciting. It was impossible to play shots off the back wall, since the rock-like balls made them drop short...

Author: By Richard B. Ruge, | Title: Niederhoffer, Squash Team Advance in U.S. Nationals | 2/23/1963 | See Source »

...soft-thinker. An appeaser. A Munich-seeker. A dove. A better-red-than-deader. An ill-concealed unilateralist...

Author: By Fred Gardner, | Title: The Cliche Expert Testifies on Disarmament | 1/16/1963 | See Source »

...longer spoken. The value of this enterprise is unquestioned, but it is, after all, a preliminary exercise. Once a text has been purified and explicated, then it should be read, as a work of art, not merely an antiquarian construct, or a repository of ancient ideas. Latin is no deader than any other language that is written down; all literature is unchanging, but it dies when it is only studied and not read...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: The Odes of Horace | 5/14/1962 | See Source »

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