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

...they ever tell you o' Earl Long is dead," cracked a Louisiana politico, "you just ask them to call a Governors' race. If Earl don't git up an' run, he's dead sure enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Earl's Whirl | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...slobbers: "Them N-double-A-C-P goons knocked my teeth out." When a heckler asks about $14,000 grafted from a power contract, Massie chuckles, slaps his back pocket and says, "I got it right hyer . . . an' you ain't gon' git a nickel of it neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shrunken-Head Faulkner | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...tied, but he is probably the best horseman in television, and his shy. Sunday-go-to-meetin' smile provokes what an agent describes as "the sexiest mail in Hollywood." Gimmick: he draws his .38 with his left hand ("That's so's they can't git the drop on me while Ah'm shakin' hands"). Born in Harrah, Okla., Dayle LyMoine Robertson earned a Silver Star during World War II. At 37 he spends much of his spare time drinking milk (three quarts a day), racing quarter horses and taking potshots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

When Hero Jim Blackstarr does any talking, he is all corn pone and hominy grits: "Look, Betty Lee, it i'n't goin' to be like this all the time. It won't be too long foah we kin git married . . ." But when Jim gets around to long thoughts about the landscape, Author Salamanca puts down these words about a summer storm: "It gets gray and cool and then the wind comes gusty from the mountains . . . and the tossing trees in the wind are like oceans with little silver fish slipping through the tops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wolfe Cub | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Whoopie ti yi yo, Git along, little dogies, It's your misfortune And none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Just Folk | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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