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

...passed over those with European names, overturned and burned cars bearing Moslem names. They smashed Moslem shops, tore up the seats and ripped down the screen in a Moslem cinema, burned open market stalls. One crowd of boys and girls invaded a butcher's shop, and with a meathook taken from it, hacked a Moslem to death in a nearby street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Dance of Death | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...sultan's guard (Jeff Chandler) is a fellow Rhonda knew back in Salem, Mass. And so the harem-scare'em ends with Jeff at the head of a revolt ("Come on, slaves, what have we got to lose?") that leaves Omar wriggling in Technicolor on a meathook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Harem-Scare'em | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...famed forelock was set alight, but he lived to revel in the torture deaths of many of the men who made the plot. So dear to Hitler's baleful eye was the sight of a German general slowly strangling on a slim cord at the end of a meathook that he had a film of the hangings run off for his benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ghosts in Field-Grey | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...Their anger touched one of the most sensitive nerves in U.S. politics. In Washington a congressional committee responded by proposing price supports for cattle while the Department of Agriculture is already investigating the spread between the price of beef on the hoof and on the butcher's meathook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock: MEAT PRICES | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

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