Word: puff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largely responsible for podiatry's increasingly respectable status is Manhattan's Dr. Maurice J. Lewi (rhymes with Dewey). Dr. Lewi, who celebrated his birthday last week by blowing out all 91 candles ( none to grow on) with one lusty puff, has been thinking about foot troubles for 72 years...
Dean Baker believed the explosion would have lifted only a small puff of dirt that groundskeepers could quickly have raked and rolled, but asserted that "from our point of view, it was thoroughly rude and unsporting for the students to barge in on such an attraction as a Harvard-Yale game. Harvard is naturally and properly interested in stopping such outright vandalism...
...EDWARD A. PUFF...
Since the subject had come up, it seemed a good time to list a few of the "big, fat blimps of words" the News was really against: puff balls like "quadripartite," "unilateral" and "directive." "Why the boys can't just say 'four-party,' 'one-sided' and 'order' is beyond...
Communists must have snickered. As every good Communist knows, '"deviationism" is the primary sin in Moscow's decalogue. But Henry's little puff of DDT seemed to please Rex Tugwell, who said he was now "very happy...