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

...last night; he laughed and told me I had it all wrong. "When Lyndon Johnson says he talked with Martin Luther King--that's name-dropping." Which underlined for me how far our Nobel Laureate, natty as a J. Press ad in his three-piece continental suit--(no cuffs, laceless black shoes), is from the scarred and faceless Negro worker who's getting the hell beat out of him in Mississippi. It was Martin King's face, not this worker's that politely accused America from the cover of Time. Everybody knows his name...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Martin Luther King | 1/13/1965 | See Source »

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