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Word: sloshes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Slosh Through Slush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Improvements on Sidewalk Halted | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

...says Brown, the thing is about to happen again. The ice in the Antarctic is getting thicker and heavier. The earth is wobbling. Soon the great slosh will come. Most of mankind will be drowned and the rest will enjoy new climates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Can the Earth Capsize? | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...cartoon in the Evening News showed a London family preparing with bated breath to open a can of fish. "Steady now, mother," says the paterfamilias, standing by with an ax; "if it springs at you, I slosh it with this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Snoek | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Throngs of Filipinos stood in the rain beside the liquid roads of Leyte last week to watch the jeeps slosh by, to cheer, and cheer again. The whole green, steaming land had turned to quaking ooze. But there was no dampening the Filipino spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The News from Leyte | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...night Rangers are often summoned from their tents and Niesen huts, sent off through the eternal rain on compass marches over unmarked, blacked-out terrain. On these marches they wade creeks, slosh through mires, sleep wet and muddy on open ground without bedroll or tent. They live off the country, learn how to kill a sheep by cracking its neck with a quick twist (so that its bleat will not betray them), how to butcher it and start cooking within seven minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Rangers in Scotland | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

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