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Word: heck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pronounced heck-it; the goddess of witchcraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Evil in Our Time | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

When he sold eight cartoons to the Arizona Highway magazine, he wrote Mom exuberantly: "By return mail will come a BEE-OO-TIFUL check for $16! Of course $2 isn't a heck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Bill, Willie & Joe | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...understand about the Old School Tie [TIME, May 7], but what the heck is a Rotary Club? Is it a policeman's stick, a society of egg beaters, or a group of soldiers waiting for a furlough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 28, 1945 | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...What the heck is an Old School Tie? Is it the "tie that binds" type of tie, or something to adorn a gentleman's neck? I take it that an Old School Tie is something to be worn by graduates of English schools, . . . but whether every graduate wears the same kind or whether the members of one club wear one kind of a tie and those of another club, another. ... I have no idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 7, 1945 | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

...some good. ... If everybody come out of the war with one new friend like he never had before, that's a lot." Reminded of the money he might have made in civilian life from the 97 bouts he has staged for overseas troops, he observed: "Heck, lots of soldiers have give up a lot more than Joe Louis have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 16, 1945 | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

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