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Word: kinda (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pauses a long time before April, a nude blonde with a telephone curled up on a sofa. "Kinda cute, don't you think?" he asks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winder Loves Clock, Pinup Beauties | 3/30/1949 | See Source »

Frankie, in his usual knit tie and sharp suit, was there to receive a plaque from Mercury Records for selling 5,000,000 of their platters.* His cooey "gettin' kinda lonesome" style ("It feels good coming out that way") had come to him as naturally as a good night's sleep. But it had not always come that easily to his listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Feels Good That Way | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...always 'The day I beat Army' or 'The night I knock out Graziano.' " Billy tells how Yonkel was once outjinxed by one Timothy Whitehead, who had lost $5,000,000 in the '29 crash. "That's diffrunt," said Yonkel, "winnin' from dat kinda fella don't mean I'm all washed up azza jink. I wuz outclassed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cabaret Philosopher | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...says Arcaro. He also gives a large share of credit to gentlemanly Jockey Ted Atkinson, who helped raise the standard of sportsmanship on New York tracks. "Guys will shut him off, but when he gets them in a bad spot later he never takes advantage of it. He kinda set a style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Man on a Horse | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...ring after nine months of exile. Banned in New York for failing to report a bribe offer, banned in Illinois and 13 other states as a wartime deserter, he had gone to the Washington boxing commission and explained that business about being AWOL: "Do I look like the kinda guy who'd duck a fight? They put me to work pickin' up cigarette butts and orange peels at Fort Dix. I wish to God now I picked 'em up." Rocky promised to give all but one dollar of his earnings to charity, if they would just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rooky's Road Back | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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