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

...Stone, which was sold outright when he was desperately poor, Walt Disney paid him a munificent $2,000. Since 1948 he had lived in Alderney, a pebble-sized Channel Island, where he won the natives' hearts by announcing that he was a 17-time bigamist on the lam from London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Once & Future Merlyn | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

...while loitering around a railroad station, he is adopted by two abandoned children. He snarls like a bee-stung samurai, he sulks like a spoiled geisha, but the kids tag along. And so Junpei has two kids, a sweetheart on the lam, and no yen except to do right by the youngsters and to get Komako (and his money) back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Most Humanly Hobo | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...didn't cry or lam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Music: They Hear America Singing | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

...fancy sports cars. His older brother Ramfis, 33. who ruled the country for six months after his father's assassination, is a more serious type, with an ulcer. His major occupation these days is managing the loot the Trujillos carried with them when they took it on the lam from their tiny Caribbean fief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: Where the Money Went | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

Sprinkle liberally with unintelligible Irish words ("boxty," "plawmaus," "looderamawn"*)-and don't forget to lam into Ireland as you go along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Stew | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

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