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Word: pantsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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I imagine that even after the first failure to hold the glide-path, certainly after the second one, his instinct-the seat of his pants, call it what you will-after that many hours in the air, told him that something was wrong. And his seniority as a four-engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies, Jan. 3, 1955 | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

Part of the failure to woo the commuter to his Center is the continuing shortage of attractive and needed features. Putting a big flannel patch on a hole in a pair of blue jeans won't make them suit pants, and the stop gap measures at Dudley have not transformed...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Commuter's Center: A Home Is No House | 12/14/1954 | See Source »

At Camp Gordon, Ga., Lieut. Anderson was given eleven days to whip one company into shape. ("The men wore dirty uniforms, their pants were unbuttoned, and they needed haircuts.") In eleven days it was an honor company.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Off Limits For Officers | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Wave upon wave of applause filled a circus tent in Hamburg last week as a preposterous, shambling clown, his baggy pants secured by a huge safety pin, his crudely gloved hands the essence of misplaced elegance, finished his turn. Friends and fans had come from as far away as Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The Great Grock | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

Every time the vicious young bull charged, the tall, blonde girl from Texas spun him past her high-waisted Andalusian pants with a flick of the crimson muleta. When finally she leaned over the bull's lowered horns and killed him, the crowd at the Ciudad Juárez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Brave Blonde | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

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