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Word: squirts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paranoia, had first ambushed a party of visiting Americans, killing California Congressman Leo Ryan, 53, three newsmen and one defector from their heavily guarded colony at Jonestown. Then, exhorted by their leader, intimidated by armed guards and lulled with sedatives and painkillers, parents and nurses used syringes to squirt a concoction of potassium cyanide and potassium chloride onto the tongues of babies. The adults and older children picked up paper cups and sipped the same deadly poison sweetened by purple Kool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare in Jonestown | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...them, and put your port oars over the buoys. Don't miss 'em, it's ten seconds, but cut it real close--this saves more time than you can imagine. Watch out for crews on your outside (you did get the inside of the turn, didn't you, squirt?) and cut across the river into the center arch, taking ten to push it home. Stay calm, oars over the buoys on that last turn by Belmont Hill...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Friese, | Title: You Say You Want to Cox? | 10/20/1978 | See Source »

With Willie Randolph at first, Hobson fielded a Thurman Munson sizzler and misfired the ball into centerfield in his haste to turn the double play. Remy then let a Reggie Jackson dribbler squirt through his legs, and the aggressive-running Bombers had tallied twice to close the gap to 6-3. But Jackson was cut down trying to stretch the Remy error into a double, and reliever Bob Stanley fanned Chris Chambliss to quash the rebellion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sox Top Yanks, 7-3--Finally | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...budget is an engineer's document with no flashes of inspiration or insight but with a cautious and thorough probing of the national machinery, a bit of tin; kering here, a new part there, a yank on a lever or two and a squirt of the oilcan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Carter v. Carter on the Budget | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...Baron Arnaud de Rosnay is no run-of-the-disco jet-setter. The dashing entrepreneur already has behind him careers as France's national surfboard champion, a photojournalist, a publicist and a backgammon promoter. Now, like a man who contemplates an ocean and invents the squirt gun, De Rosnay has come up with a parlor game based on the energy crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Playing Sheik | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

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