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Word: squirt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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John L. Lewis, a man of vivid dislike, has no use for James Boyd. The reason is secondhand: Lewis primarily doesn't like Secretary of Interior Julius Krug, whom Lewis once described as having a "squirt mentality and a balloonized physique." So when Krug got the President to appoint Boyd director of the Bureau of Mines two years ago, Lewis blackballed Boyd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Spring Mourning | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...mild-mannered T. Barton Akeley, who had been popular with his students but not with the town ("My beard, my beret. They just can't take idiosyncrasies"). When some of the students picketed in protest, Ashby was outraged. At his convocation, he promised to eliminate "termites" with a squirt of DDT (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Purge | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...Washington Times-Herald's Inquiring Photographer asked several plump women about their reaction to the Too Fat Polka. Samples: 1) "I have such a little squirt of a husband someone has to have some heft around the house." 2) "I'm just well rounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Edward Mehren, president of Los Angeles' Squirt Co. (manufacturers of carbonated beverages), predicted the end of nickel soft drinks, urged the Government to start minting 7½? and 12½ coins for the nation's pop drinkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...water bags. Until the police called a halt, hundreds of women were rumped by electrified canes and battery-powered "jump boxes"-instruments which made them leap like gazelles. Thousands of women-even the tarts who gathered expectantly near hotel exits-were soaked by the Legion's merciless squirt guns, by a truck-mounted spray machine, and even, at times, by streams from the jugs which the water-gunmen used to refill their weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VETERANS: The Battle of Broadway | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

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