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

...Kiss Goodbye. The bright yellow bus, with 46 pupils aboard, was bound for the elementary and high schools in nearby Prestonsburg. There was nothing unusual about the morning beyond cloudy skies, or about the bus and its journey. At about 7 o'clock Driver Jack Derossett, 27, started his usual route through the 75-family coal-mining town of Cow Creek, picked up his regular riders on schedule. Seconds before he was due, for example, James Goble, 12, John, 11, and Anna Laura, 9, the three children of Cow Creek Storekeeper James B. Goble, scooped up their books, kissed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Beneath the Big Sandy | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...mile from Cow Creek, Driver Derossett eased down a slight incline beside the Big Sandy. Two hundred feet ahead, a wrecker was maneuvering across Highway 23 to pull a truck out of a ditch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Beneath the Big Sandy | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

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