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

...jump as though he had been hit with a baseball bat, and bloodied the soft, warm, white, middle-aged flesh of his right side. Al just had time to realize he was being killed. He kicked out in such convulsive fright that he broke the chair's metal footrest. Then he lurched up in adenoidal agony and knocked over a bottle of bay rum. The two men who were killing him went placidly on with their work, and when Al crashed to the floor he was a pleasantly scented cadaver-a five holer, as it were, and badly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Laughing Matter | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...committee suggested, however that for these girls whose footrest in the subject, is still alive books on sex be and on open reserve in the Cliffe Library. At present the books are either closes reserve or hidden on the third floor among the theology books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Shied Away From Sex When Served Up in Lectures | 11/26/1952 | See Source »

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