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Word: pantsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The batter, narrow-eyed and tightlipped, leaned in toward the plate, and crouched to make a smaller target of his stocky little frame. He wriggled, fidgeted with his cap, hitched up his belt, got his feet dug in, began waggling his bat. Just as the pitcher started his windup, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Brat | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

He relayed them to Rewrite Man Bob Hall, a veteran of 14 years on the paper, who had led police to a murderer once before. Hall went to work on the phone, ran down 18-year-old Roman Rodriguez, a pants presser. Did Rodriguez know the girl? Yes, he did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Headline of the Week | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

Captain with a Memory. Cooper graduated from the University of Texas in 1915, and was a captain of infantry in World War I. After the war, he plunged into the business and social life of Waco, where his father was a wealthy wholesaler, but it was not quite enough. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waco's Novelist | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

It was a bitter blow for National Committeeman Roosevelt, who backed General Eisenhower and tried to ditch Truman in 1948, got let down by Truman in 1952. Nothing seemed to be going right for him. Before the week was out, a squirrel ran up his pants leg and bit his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Squirrel Prey | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

Housewifely Bustle. Food is still scarce and high in Seoul, and black markets thrive everywhere. When military police decided to check all vehicles entering Seoul on the chance that they might be stolen or contain stolen parts, a near famine resulted. All the truckers who had been carrying food into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: Springtime in Seoul | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

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