Word: littered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always "darlings." Lost dogs are inevitably "the pet of an invalid grandmother" or belong to a "heartbroken little girl." Dogs for sale are recommended variously in classified newspaper ads as "love that money can't buy," "darlings," "cuddlies," and "swell pets." Most refined touch: a bitch with a litter of pups listed as a "matron...
When Irish-born Colleen Browning first saw Harlem 16 months ago, she was struck by "the long, straight streets, the litter, the children's drawings on the pavement, all the life against the dead-looking buildings." Since Colleen Browning is an artist, she set about painting what she saw, and last week she put 13 pictures on display in a Manhattan gallery. Harlem has been painted more expertly, but seldom with more sympathy or with a quicker eye for vivid detail...
...good example of Browning's new style is Seesaw, a group of children teeter-tottering dizzily up a perpendicular canvas. Another Browning trick: painting her Harlemites from above, so that the figures can be seen against a background of pavement litter and sidewalk doodles...
Pipes & Polish. When Wood reached 70, Johns Hopkins refused to let him retire: instead of making him emeritus, the university made him research professor. Today he is still in his laboratory each morning by 9:30, threading his way through a labyrinthine litter of bottles, jars, tubes, pipes, batteries and wires...
...stanza in the 1951 verse likens "Lionel, Lehman, Littauer, Lamont" and several other buildings to "a litter of pups conceivably aired by Hollis and Stoughton...