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Word: hummin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...people are roastin' a nigger over an open fire, but I guess every town has its night-owls, and afore long they'll be tucked up asleep like anybody else. Nothin' stirring down at the big old plantation house-you can't even hear the hummin' of that electrified barbed-wire fence, 'cause last night some drunk ran slap into it and fused the whole works. That's where Mr. Faulkner lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A PARODY SAMPLER | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

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