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

...street, and there is a doorway, corner or tree within a step or two, take shelter there. Turn your back to the light and hug the building, to avoid falling masonry or flying glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ABCs | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...time the chemist slips out of the bear hug, the U.S. Army, Navy and FBI are hunting him down like a lost gram of plutonium. Faced with Government control on either side of the political divide, the chemist surrenders to Big Business, and safe in a gilded cage, with a gorgeous chickadee to keep him company, he settles back to watch his pill take effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Millennium Deferred | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...phenomenal memory: it exploits every type of gag, farce twist or comedy situation that ever made good in the past. It is one more of the Rodgers & Hammerstein-produced hits (John Loves Mary, Happy Birthday) that give the obvious and the mediocre a finishing-school education, and that hug a safe, tried formula on the theory of nothing venture, nothing lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Feb. 6, 1950 | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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