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Word: outta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours later police found the friend - a scared, black-eyed 14-year-old named Anthony. At first, the boy acted tough ("Get those reporters outta here," he told police. "I don't want no pitchers took"), but gradually it all came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gunfire in Brooklyn | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...done it? Said Anthony: "I got a zero in the first term. I was afraid to muff this exam. I figured my old man would beat hell outta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gunfire in Brooklyn | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...Unconvinced. The reason he is there is U.S. foreign policy, which he neither understands nor recognizes: U.S. forces are in China by international agreement, to support the Chinese Central Government. The average marine's reaction to that: "The hell with it-let's get outta here." As for preserving North China from the Communists, many marines say: "When we leave, the Communists will take it anyway-so why not let them have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Jacfu on the Railroad | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

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