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

...Graham Lampson, just back from France, in London's drafty Victoria Station one day last week. "Half a hundredweight [56 Ibs.] of coal," she replied. And there it was, in her immaculate suitcase, each lump neatly wrapped in tissue paper. Mrs. Lampson, daughter-in-law of Baron Killearn, first British Ambassador to Egypt, explained that French friends, concerned over Britain's critical fuel shortage, had given it to her so she could keep warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Coals to Victoria | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

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