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

Last week's self-mutilators told the investigators that they had been driven to their madness by the brutality of prison bosses. Some told of being blackjacked, beaten with sticks, thrown into solitary confinement for trivial offenses. Said one wheel-chaired prisoner, his eyes blazing with hate: "The onliest thing we ask for is that the beatings and cussing stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Men in Despair | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...disappointed that you omitted the "e" in Greeneville, Tenn., which reminds me of a porter on the Southern Railway's "Memphis Special," announcing: "Greeneville, Greeneville, the home of Andrew Johnson, the 17th President of the United States, the onliest Greeneville with an 'e' in the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 31, 1951 | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

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