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Word: hobnobs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Simply sighting flying saucers is out of date-the big spin now is to spot them landing and to hobnob with their interplanetary passengers. Pioneer yarn-spinner among the neo-Münchausen breed is George Adamski, a self-described Southern California "philosopher, student, teacher, saucer researcher" and former short-order cook who claimed (in last year's Flying Saucers Have Landed) that he stood beside a saucer on the California desert in November 1952 and talked (telepathically) with a tanned, short visitor from Venus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Meeting on the Moor | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...were not for the University's requirement that a student must spend half his time in residence. So instead he went to Boston College for the degree. "I think it was a good idea to go to a school like Boston College," he states, "because then you hobnob with people of different ideas...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: John J. Curry | 9/24/1952 | See Source »

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