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Word: shinin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...color." "It made me crawl all up my backbone," says Sergeant Terence, recounting the welcome-home to Peshawar of returning troops, in Love-o'-Women-and so, too, does the reader's backbone crawl as the bagpipes scream in the dawn light and a cavalry band, "shinin' an' spic like angils," adds the rattle of its "silver kettle-dhrums" to the shrieks of the wives and the terrible notes of the Dead March, sounding gruesomely from a regiment whose colonel has been killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kipling Revisited | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...moon is shinin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mystery Hit | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

Sooth is a tale of the occult, its hero a colored roustabout seaman fleeing the violent end predicted for him by a "conjuh-woman." He switches from ship to ship and alias to alias. But always he hears the words of the soothsayer: "Wha'-foh you big teef shinin' to the sky? How come all this heah bullet-blood runnin' outen yoh skull-pate all oveh the groun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reactionary Old Fogy | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

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