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Word: snickering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...moans about his "troubles," heard from his pinnacle of success, make some fans snicker with envy or disbelief. But the fact that his troubles stem largely from a walnut-hard competitive instinct, an inch-short temper and a worry wart as big as a baseball, makes them no less real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Competitive Instinct | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...harmless pleasures of the brush and easel. Last week 228 of them were discovering the prouder joys of exhibition. The winners of a nationwide contest sponsored by Art News magazine, they had had their works hung in Manhattan's Riverside Museum for all the world to gawk and snicker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Escape | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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