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Word: rattler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chew up tickets and disgorge the microscopic confetti on the vests of the witless passengers. He knows not what his sins are; he just lives in the dim suspicion that at some Last Stop the Great Dispatcher will explain everything. But he never gets there; imprisoned aboard the mysterious rattler, he can only hope to wedge his way past his fellow riders into the bar car and brace himself with a couple of neat shots. Somewhere, along toward the end of the day, he escapes into the waiting doors of his station wagon and is carried home-duped, looped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Great Train Rack | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

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