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Word: squirt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eggs. Once 40,000 names on a petition urged him to run for mayor; unions and businessmen gave him their labor disputes to mediate. Paul Smith, who stands 5 ft. 8 in. tall, had an eleven-word explanation for his success: "I'm just a little squirt anxious to be a tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Failure of Foresight | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

...mansion of Beer Baron Marko (Broderick Crawford) in the post-Prohibition era. Here is assembled an assortment of corpses & coppers, mugs & molls, touts & thugs, not to mention a couple of bankers attempting to foreclose on Marko's needled beer brewery, an obnoxious six-year-old orphan with a squirt gun (Louis Lettieri), and a dowager with a lorgnette (Margaret Dumont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 22, 1952 | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

...rattle, a popgun and five-penny squirt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO "THE DAUNTLESS THREE" | 11/6/1952 | See Source »

...They squirted the squirt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO "THE DAUNTLESS THREE" | 11/6/1952 | See Source »

Millions of miles away in space, says Harvard's Astronomer Donald H. Menzel, the sun revolves like a tremendous lawn sprinkler. From its seething corona dense clouds of hydrogen squirt out at speeds up to 600 miles a second. Every so often one of those clouds hits the earth and bathes the planet in a shower of solar gas. But earthlings are protected by bumpers of magnetic force-invisible bars that stretch from pole to pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Northern Lights | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

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