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Word: ru (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother's ru...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Mother's Ruin | 2/25/1959 | See Source »

...mother's ru-in shall be mine. --Old Song...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Mother's Ruin | 2/25/1959 | See Source »

...word Y-to-X-lo or -ro, Gordon reasoned, might mean "cumulative total," and the Akkadian word for that was kitmuru. Since the Akkadians did not distinguish between the o and u sounds, to could be tu, and lo or ro could be hi or ru. Then Y becomes ki, and X, mil, to make kitumuru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Where the Twain Met | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

There's an Oh, such a zeal for spooning ru'ning the mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Great Ear-Wiggler | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...rich are fleeing the plague in expensive carriages, bribing quarantine officials to let them through. The middle class are incapable of fleeing because they are weighed down by stuffed furniture and bric-a-brac. The poor are working themselves into a state of hysteria by spreading and believing bloodcurdling ru mors. The happy-go-lucky are whoring and boozing in a last, sordid spree; the eccentrics are staging a comic opera and disguising themselves from death by dressing up as Pierrots, Harlequins, Columbines, clowns. One man is getting by (he hopes) insisting that a cholera epidemic does not exist. Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Plague in Provence | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

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