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Word: guffawlderol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Shulman plants a Nike missile base in Putnam's Landing, Fairfield County, Conn, and fuses the inevitable melee between mufti and khaki. Among the participants in this guffawlderol: a club-car Pagliaccio otherwise known as "Harry Bannerman, boy adulterer" whose inability to make a heavy date with his civic-minded wife drives him to guilt-ridden sessions "of candlelight and yum-yum" with a sex-famished neighbor; the neighbor's absentee husband, a cigar-chomping titan of TV; an amiable, lovesick sheep in second lieutenant's clothing named Guido di Maggio ("Hey, di Maggio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Dec. 30, 1957 | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

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