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Word: disens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1954-1954
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Usage:

...jump regularly from all types of aircraft . . . Leaping . . . with a full fieldpack, a rifle, extra equipment plus a large, 75-lb. general-purpose container, makes the stoic little Russian's feat appear rather tame by comparison. But . . . this big tough Russian murmuring "Eto Nichevo," as he [disen tangled himself from] his warning buzzers and portable political tutors after landing "near the white chalk cross," is what prompted me to write . . . All my friends here in Combat Control would like to extend a formal invitation to the U.S.S.R. parachute-jumping team to a spot jumping contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

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