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Word: hens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hard-Boiled. In Lucedale, Miss., Lovonia Jones Box was fined $522 after police found eight pint bottles of moonshine under a setting hen in her yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 9, 1960 | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...beginning of Endless Road, Peter Fletcher has already lost a great deal more than a weekend. A onetime athlete, he has lost his physical fitness. He has lost his job as a columnist. He has left his wife Mary, an odd mother-hen type who needed Peter's boozed-up dependence on her as much as he needed booze. The only thing he has not lost is the enduring friendship of Jon Baker, a fellow booze-fighter of yesteryear who has become an apostle of Alcoholics Anonymous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alkie's Nightmare | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...leading islander is Colonel Baker, retired and gardening his life away in a country cottage. His bossy wife, who is aware of him only as an irritation, is faithful to her housework and TV, but her real occupation is being a worry-hen about her sons-and there is plenty to worry about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oh, Not to Be in England | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

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