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Word: deicer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...private pilot's ticket for six months last year after he peevishly buzzed Teterboro's control tower, taxied his DC-3 at the scene of the crime, this time clipped a ground approach light with his wing. Unaware that he had dented the wing and ripped a deicer, he nonchalantly took off for Nova Scotia. The tower called Godfrey, broke the news that he had just had a slight accident. Surprised as he could be, Pilot Godfrey returned to the field, where all was forgiven as an inadvertent mishap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

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