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Word: hoss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...mommy, look at the t'ree hoss-hoss," a little boy said, pulling a wire whch guarded the Nativity Scene on the Boston Common. "No, Jimmy, for the last time--they're camels bringing Wise men to Jesus." "No, mommy, they isn't. T'ree hoss-hoss, hoss-hoss," he wailed, tugging at the wire...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 12/21/1951 | See Source »

When it was over, Old Artilleryman Truman made straight for a 75-mm. howitzer, the one-hoss shay of the ordnance on display. He patted it lovingly, sternly told photographers who had snapped him peering down the barrel of a rifle a short while before that he would not pose looking down this barrel. "You don't look down the barrel of a cannon," said he, "you might get your head shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Man at Work | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

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