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Word: jugs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twentieth Century, Orton and his colleagues revealed that had Gertrude Stein only known the farmers of England, her celebrated "rose is a rose is a rose" might have read a "rose is a hep is a shoop is a schoop is a dog shoop is a cat jug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Rose Is a Schoop | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

Over the years, the Teutonic twins have not only prevailed against cannibals, Der Captain and myriad other adult oppressors, but have survived, as well, newspaper wars, two World Wars against Germany and the Pianola-to-TV revolution in U.S. taste. Today the jug-eared, saucer-eyed hellions mangle their foes and the language with the same sadistic glee that tickled readers' ribs in 1897.*Child psychologists and teachers these days deplore their influence; children love them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dirks's Bad Boys | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Nevertheless, undergraduates have greater reliance upon the hip flask become more cautious of late, placing and the small, pocket sized bottle than upon the old fashioned cider jug filled with milk punch or the like...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: More Sedate Topers Shun Cider Jugs | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

...gorgeous Golden Slope of vineyards that tints eastern France for 30 miles, the autumn sun beamed warm rays on the deserted towns. Except for a pair of black-clad grandmothers gossiping on the cobblestones and a couple of overalled, rubber-booted winegrowers closing a deal over a jug of Burgundy in the Cafe de la Cote d'Or, everybody in Nuits-St. Georges (pop. 3,600)-men, women and children, the schoolmaster and even the cure-was out harvesting the new vintage in the heart of France's Burgundy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURGUNDY: The Purple Harvest Comes In | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...Fleet Karl Dönitz. Known as der Löwe (the Lion), Donitz had masterminded the submarine campaign that destroyed about 15 million tons of Allied and neutral shipping, with a loss of tens of thousands of Allied lives in World War II. "Kill and keep on killing," jug-eared, ice-blue-eyed Dönitz had exhorted his U-boat captains. "Remember, no survivors. Humanity is a weakness." The U-boatmen responded by firing on torpedoed crews struggling in the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Lion Is Out | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

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