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Word: spunkier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...priesthood, possibly in disgust at his father's tactics, but comes to hate his parishioners as much as he does his father, and dies of a hemorrhaging ulcer. Another son cravenly sponges off the old man. The eldest daughter becomes Charlie's spinster slave, while a spunkier daughter, Helen, marries a pompous doctor just to escape from the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Something About the Irish | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

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