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

Still Life. In San Francisco, U.S. Revenooer Jack Courtney investigated a cache of illegal moonshine in Chinatown, emptied three 5-gal. pickle jars of the grog down a drain, found that the dregs consisted of two chickens, two hawks and a monkey's paw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...strode about her villa in the buff with a pet monkey perched on her shoulder. Only an outsider-a Western Union boy-was shocked. When he delivered a telegram, the boy took one look at the apparition bowing low before him, shoved the message into the monkey's paw and fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: End of the House Party | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...Summer House: I looked for the summer house, winter house, then just any house, but failing to find one played the game of hidden pictures instead. I was rewarded to find a masked thug, Dick Tracy, okra, and a hound dog baying at the moon while bleeding from one paw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Wheeler developed new machines and plugged them with ads such as "Flora May figured to save Paw's shirt" (because he always lost his shirt playing red dog with the boys around the post office, Flora May bought him a postage machine instead). He also made a name for himself as a liberal businessman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Stamp of Success | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...Boys in Law Incline to paw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 'X' Cage of Widener Library | 12/2/1958 | See Source »

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