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Word: scotches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limbering up my magnificent legs. We're sure to win this year, even though competition is stiff. Our tandem is equipped with rags, flags, oil water, soda, and scotch. And pills. We're both wearing white Bermuda shorts and pale blue sweaters. Our socks are crimson...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: A Veteran's Guide to the Big Race | 5/2/1956 | See Source »

...year-old retired bodyguard who once worked for the late Detroit Industrialist Walter O. Briggs Sr., Rouse insisted that he was half Cherokee, half French Canadian, and his wife Scotch-Irish by descent-but nobody listened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Buyer Beware | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...dresses with a flourish, disdains tobacco and sniffs at sports. Bradley is a roly-poly (5 ft. 6 in., 160 Ibs.) Briton who arrived in the U.S. at the age of seven, a casual dresser who often appears in mismatched pants and coat, a keen southpaw golfer and a Scotch drinker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Automatic Shift | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...folks were nodding when you failed to scotch Representative Bob Poage's crack about Joseph taking gold vessels from his brethren [March 5], which shows how ignorant of the Bible a Texas Democrat can be. Joseph took nothing from his brothers. On the contrary, he gave generous gifts to them. As for "gold vessels," the only thing of its kind mentioned in the Biblical story was one cup which was not gold but silver. Joseph ordered it to be placed in the sack of his full brother, Benjamin, so he would have a pretext to keep him in Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: The Running Debate | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...University administration's inherent conservatism might well scotch such an ambitious program, but if one of Harvard's alumni who has achieved fame and fortune through the medium of golf or bridge would follow Mr. Gority's example, the College could take its rightful place beside Notre Dame on the frontiers of education...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/25/1956 | See Source »

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