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

There is no reason for sacrificing any more troops in Korea. If it is being done to save someone's face, we in Korea have news for them: we are interested in saving something, too-and it's not pur face. The great showdown is approaching . . . Are we going to sleep right up to the minute the opening gun is fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 15, 1951 | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

...Others: "Professor" Friedrich Bhaer, who married one of Louisa M. Alcott's Little Women; James Whitcomb Riley's "Perfesser John Clark Ridpath, A.M., LL.D., T-Y-TY." The TYTY was a bit of Riley humor. Since schoolchildren used to spell by syllable (e.g., PURITY, p-u-r-PUR; iI; t-y-TY), the alphabet after the "perfesser's" name brought forth from Riley the old classroom response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hard Words | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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