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Word: ouch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...28th birthday Orson Welles unstrapped himself from a brace that keeps one of his vertebrae in line, tried to touch his toes for examining Army doctors, got as far ("Ouch!") as his knees, presently went home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 17, 1943 | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...this as OGRE is just a typographical error), press-agent the innumerable Press Agents of the Individual Departments (often called the PAIDS) and will under no circumstances do anything whatever that anybody else is doing already. . . . When the Office of Utter Confusion and Hysteria (to be referred to as OUCH) has finally been created, then the capstone will have been set upon the pyramid and we can all die happy, strangled in the very best red tape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Information Worse Confounded | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...much industry - had been lost in German Blitzes. The British would not be able to do much better that against the Germans, at least for a long time. But the important thing this year was that both protagonists, just one of them, are now learning the meaning of ouch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: IN THE AIR: Teeth for Two | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...sponge rubber." On another occasion he posed the question: "Did you ever kiss a man with a beard, and what reaction was there?" A girl replied: "Yes, when I was young and having my teeth straightened. Some of his whiskers caught in my wire brace, and he said 'ouch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Accosting on the Street | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...Ouch. In Yonkers, N.Y., William Ouch sustained painful injuries in an automobile accident without complaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 14, 1941 | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

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