Word: hiccup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said he, was like a baby who had been taking the bottle too fast; it had to have a chance to burp. The big question was: "Is it going to be just one little burp, or is it going to be a chronic hiccup which is going to kill baby...
Cuba last week had its first revolution in seven years. Compared with the butcheries that clotted up the regimes of Gerardo ("Tyrant") Machado and preceding Cuban presidents, it was as genteel as a dowager's hiccup...