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Word: moosing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moo & Moola. They blinded Gus to Flora's shortcomings, but they could hardly conceal her size. "Although a large girl, Flora was scarcely more muscular than a hundred and fifty pounds of jelly. . . . She had the even disposition of a milch cow . . . and [admired] Gus as if he were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fool's Paradise Lost | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Unholy Cow. In New Ulm, Minn., police forbade truckers to park livestock near churches when congregations complained that off-key moos loused up the hymns.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

It is the year 1880, and spring has come to Willowspring, Pa. (pop. 4,000). "The sun, like an eager lover with searching fingers, [runs] penetrating rays into every crevice. . . ." Slowly "the earth yields [with] a sweet resistlessness . . . like the ultimate surrender of a virgin. Hens fly every which way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exotic Pennsylvania | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

Of Moos & Men

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 28, 1946 | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Newark people did what city dwellers always do when faced with the inexplicable: they called the police. The police department had no map of Newark's sewer system. A sergeant and six patrolmen entered the sewer, carrying ropes, flashlights, a portable telephone, a Tommy gun. Under East Orange, four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Moos from a Manhole | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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