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Word: pucker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...governor and had promised to make her the "first lady of Alabama" afterwards. She didn't even object to his campaign methods: he traveled to the "crossroads, the branch-heads and the brush arbors" with a hillbilly band, called on it to strike up a tune called "Pucker up, Honey, Jim Folsom's Comin'," and then galumphed through crowds kissing all the women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: A Man Was the Cause of It All | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...Titus' farm is "somethin' like Communism. Nobody's got nothin', but everybody's workin'." Does he like the radio? "I don't hold with furniture that talks." Titus is anemic. If cut, he will not bleed; the wound will only "hiss and pucker." Says Allen: "Titus will be getting better when the other characters have dried up and blown away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The World's Worst Juggler | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Progress. In Washington, D.C., a patent was awarded to Antonio Perelli-Minetti for an anti-pucker grape-juice product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 9, 1943 | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

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