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Word: desker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Southern papers still prefer War Between the States to Civil War. During the Spanish Civil War, a New Orleans Times-Picayune copy-desker wrote with tongue in cheek, "The Spanish War Between the States." Few Southern papers will Mr. a Negro in print; some steadfastly refuse to capitalize Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cannibalized | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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