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

...class, a special B.U. committee had decided, was a nice trophy-something like the Michigan-Minnesota little brown jug or the Indiana-Purdue old oaken bucket. The committee considered and discarded the notion of a totem pole or a big bass drum. Finally someone suggested an oldtime Boston bean pot. Bright B.U. Publicity-man George Wood took over from there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Old Bean Pot | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...abandoned foxhole on top of a hill; U.S. fighter planes overhead were firing at swarms of Reds who were trying to get at him. Just as Jones was about to lower his helicopter for a landing, he ran into Red fire. "Guys were running out of a house taking pot shots at us," Jones recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Story of a Helicopter | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

When the police arrived, Benjamin Krieger half-sobbed his accusation: the narrow-faced man had been a "block leader" or trusty at Auschwitz. Benjamin and his brother Zelman had pleaded with him for food. The trusty had killed Zelman with a savage swing of an iron pot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: A Man with a Narrow Face | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...little boys, in pot & pan armor, duel with wooden spoons for the right to be her king. When both of them are finally stretched out on the floor dead, little Lucy Willow sighs and sings Author Stein's closing lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Be a Queen | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...reader of Patria Mia will regretfully conclude that someone should have tethered Ezra Pound in time, before, like the arts of Zammbuck, he went to pot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Renegade as a Young Man | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

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