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Word: pooped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poop Deck. In Toronto, Clifford Nesbitt staggered while undergoing an intoxication test for drunken driving, won an acquittal when he explained: "I'm an ex-sailor. That's my swagger left over from naval days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Helen of Troy isn't likely to get you through a Homer hour exam. Classics Comics give the real poop, but then, Classics Comics generally don't have the wonder of stereophonic sound. Also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 3/9/1956 | See Source »

...where, if the social stimulus of the other men doesn't push him over, someone will carry him over. No, our pilots go into targets alone. It's a matter of ethics whether they press through the attack. I don't think many would poop out in what you journalists call the moment of truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. Air Force: The Nation's Youngest Service Has Entered the Supersonic age | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...Justice seemed undisturbed. He sat on the poop of the barge holding a branch of forsythia, smiling and doffing his tan Stetson. When the party climbed out onto the Georgetown cobblestones at the end of the trip, he seemed as fresh and springy of step as ever. But as he got into his chauffeur-driven Oldsmobile to go home, certain marks of wilderness attrition were unmistakably evident: somehow, somewhere, Justice Douglas had got his chin into some poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATURE: End of the Trail | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...hardy tinkers and tailors they were. For the producers of this movie were obviously concerned lest they shatter any primary school images. So they have handled the Pilgrims carefully. The only boorish character on Mayflower is the only non-Pilgrim, the captain (Spencer Tracy), who strides across his poop deck, cursing love and friendship in exaggerated tones, and carrying the whole burden of godlessness, until the others finally remake him into a good...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Plymouth Adventure | 11/28/1952 | See Source »

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