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Word: pourin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pourin' It On." It was plain that he intended to give Congress the business from now on. He returned to the White House with an avowal to "veto some more bills."* It was also plain that he meant to make campaign hay out of the 80th Congress' neglect of housing, reclamation, and health-insurance legislation. "Oh, I'm pourin' it on," he cried, "and I'm gonna keep pourin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: If I'm Wrong . . . | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...sundown the gals come a-pourin out of the woods for the frolic like ants out of an old log when t'other end's afire. [Then] an old Hardshell preacher* come a-walkin in out of nowhar in the dark, with his mouth mortised into his face in a shape like a mule's hoof, heels down. . . . Like all Hardshells, he was dead agin women and lovely sounds and motions and dancin and cussin and kissin. [But] the whiskey part of the frolic he had nothin agin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Preachers, Varments, Planners | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

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