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

...Stork Club with an eyesome blonde. Near his table sat Walter Winchell. The moony young man's eyes bulged with appeal to Winchell for a word or even a look of recognition. Ignored, William P. Lear forgot his triumph of the morning, snarled at the blonde slunk sadly from the Stork Club, and astonished his companions by going home alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Brash Young Man | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...conferees gathered about Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Mitch Hepburn slunk off by himself, returned only when the meeting was called to order and he was forced to sit next to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister made a short speech of welcome, appealed to the Premiers to join in deliberating on the reconstruction of Canada's Constitution and taxation system. Mitch was the first to reply. He read a brief which not only rejected the report but insulted its authors as well. To him the report was a well-cooked nefarious deal" to get provincial debts taken over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Farewell to Reform | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...last moment, the News had cold feet. Sole evidence of Sadie Hawkins Day in the Bowl was an undergraduate representing Daisy Mae, who suddenly dashed on the field at halftime in the midst of a humorless procession. They cavorted a few minutes before the silent, unsmiling stands, then slunk away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sadie Hawkins at Yale | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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