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Word: noggin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other side of his head without even nicking his skull. At week's end 60 detectives had poor prospects of finding the bungling gunman before he himself was liquidated by 1) Costello's boys, or 2) his frustrated employers. Costello, his feelings more wounded than his noggin, professed amazement over the incident: "I don't have an enemy in the world." Frankie's best guess on whodunit: "I got some dry holes - supposed to be oil wells-in Wise County, Texas. Maybe some big oil company thinks those wells have oil and tried to bump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 13, 1957 | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...madam called Fauna who runs the Bear Flag and once masterminded a flourishing South American export trade in shrunken human heads. She keeps a former competitor's noggin in a desk drawer to remind her of the good old days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to the Riffraff | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

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