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Word: snitching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Survivors scurry off to corners, sort through dresses, throwing rejects on floor. They swap sizes with one another and exchange telephone numbers for later bartering. Mrs. Conroy: "You've got to hold your dresses tightly; otherwise some of those old squaws will sneak up behind you and snitch a few of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Boston Supershoppers | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...Dennis the Menace) who loves a puma named Sunshine. When Jay's folks move into the city, Jay stows away Sunshine in the back of the family truck. The cat ends up in a cramped zoo, where Jay becomes errand boy just long enough to snitch Keeper Andy Devine's keys and set loose lions, tigers, bears, apes, zebras, snakes, elephants, an ostrich and Sunshine upon a terrified populace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Zoo Story | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

...showed that the fund was an assessment on county employees for campaign contributions, the treasurer withdrew from the race. In 1952, after the Kefauver crime-investigating committee allowed a candidate for Cook County sheriff to testify in closed session, Akers sent a reporter, posing as a federal employee, to snitch the transcript. The Sun-Times disclosed the details of the candidate's connections with gamblers, and the man lost the election by a landslide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Editors: Watchdog in Chicago | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

...some cases, said Dr. Marshall, a small steal produces no obvious ill effects; this has been dubbed "the subclavian snitch." But Dr. Marshall suggested that a truly massive steal, in which both carotid arteries are also robbed of blood, might well be called "the great brain robbery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Circulation: The Great Brain Robbery | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Formerly Monday Night at the Movies; first picture of the new season is To Catch a Thief, that Hitchcock snitch switch in which Cat Burglar Gary Grant gets caught by Mouse Grace Kelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Cinema, Books: Sep. 18, 1964 | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

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