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Word: poppet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...autobiographical novel published in England just before Sylvia's death, is described as a metallic New England schoolmarm. Little Sylvia tried to be Daddy's darling. At three she knew the Latin names of hundreds of insects-whenever a bumblebee bumbled by, the pretty little poppet would squeak: "Bombus bimaculatus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Blood Jet Is Poetry | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

...poppet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 13, 1963 | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...Love, is already under way, and there should be eight more after that. Looking ahead the cultist's mouth waters with prospects of death struggles on the Orient Express and feverish rendezvous with Vesper and Pussy Galore. Even the laymen seemed to like it last night, and as one poppet murmured on her way out of the theatre, "That's one limey who gets me where I live...

Author: By Bartle Buli., | Title: Doctor No | 5/29/1963 | See Source »

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