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Word: splayfoot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Caesar's Your Show of Shows managed to kid every facet of '50s life, from commuters to foreign films. Satire thrived in Washington, where Cartoonist Herblock made savage, premonitory caricatures of Vice President Nixon in search of prominence. Mort Sahl earned $100,000 a year kidding the splayfoot, clayfoot maneuvers of the middle class, in and out of ofiice. Jules Feiffer, Walt Kelly, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, and Mad magazine all flourished in the allegedly timid decade. Jack Kerouac's road, Allen Ginsberg's Howl, Gregory Corso's curses -these too issued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Back to the Unfabulous '50s | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

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