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Word: roun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take you to my lips and swish you 'roun...

Author: By Charles S. Maier and John B. Radner, S | Title: I Hear America Swinging | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

...dialogue. A pixilated slave woman shrills: "Sodjahs acomin' down fum de Nohf, sodjahs atotin' freedumb, adrippin' it lahk sweyet on a hot day!'' She also gives Yvonne some hot-day advice on how to enslave Gable: "Tease him lahk a cayetfish aswimmin' 'roun' a wuhm! Yukky-yuk! Wait'll he git itchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 5, 1957 | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

Once upon a time, after de third millenium since de foundin ob Heaven, de Lawd and all his advisory Boa'd of Seraphim sat 'roun in a big smoke-filled room which was kep' ventilated by some angels flapping deah wings. "Peter," said de Lawd, "You is de Chairman ob Admission and Angelships. What's dis ah hear about obercrowdin' ob de heavenly palaces...

Author: By Calvin Trapp, | Title: Crisis in High Places | 2/26/1957 | See Source »

There are two short stories in this Advocate, both unpretentious and excellently written. Except for a few lines of mutually embarrassing dialect ("Da Jevvys don't want no one screwin' roun' wi dat pia-ano . . ."), Frederick Kimball's account of an artist in Jesuit clothing moves serenely to its well-ordained conclusion. Christopher Lasch's story of boy's despair before a more accomplished, less dependent companion never loses subtlety at the expense of clarity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate | 10/1/1954 | See Source »

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