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

...Athens' white, gingerbread courthouse a public mass meeting chose a minister and two businessmen to run governmentless McMinn County until the G.I.s could take over. Shootings and car-wreckings by armed bands of vigilantes continued. Big-jawed, towering Jim Buttram, twice-wounded corporal with the Ninth Division and manager of the G.I. Ticket, promised "to help maintain order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Battle of the Ballots | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

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