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Word: sluggin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when some boys in the Eighth Army have been in Africa for years compared to their months. It seems to me that somebody back home must be feeding these boys an awful lot of stupid propaganda. It's a pity too, because guys like this who have been sluggin' away at a hill like Old Baldy for three weeks don't deserve to get wrong ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: How the Yanks Fought | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...Ferguson decided then that the time was ripe. First gobbet of muck he forked up was a million-dollar conspiracy among city and county officials, policemen and gamblers to operate a baseball pool. Among those he accused: Wayne County's fighting prosecutor ("I'll be in there sluggin' in the people's interest"), Duncan Cameron McCrea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Detroit Houseclecming | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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