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Word: sucked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answers to these and other exciting questions, see Deadline, U.S.A. See a mug get crushed between the rollers of a big city press. See Rienzi, the rat, suck the city's blood, unchecked and unnoticed save by one two-fisted managing editor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deadline, U.S.A. | 4/25/1952 | See Source »

...probably get everybody and jump in the pool"), rattlesnakes ("We find five or six [every] year"), and the high cost of gentleman farming ("Our eggs cost $2 apiece"). And when he talked of possums, Bogey's eyes positively glittered. Snarled he: "I shoot possums. They'd suck eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hollywood's Crier | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...seen the outbreak of the Revolution as a mere boy. That was the generation that had started to think after the flood. It had no tradition and no memories to bind it to the old, vanished world. It was a generation born without umbilical cord, . . . It is just suck a generation of brutes that we need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dear Georgy | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...people in similar weekly appearances on the Boston Common. His harangues have gotten more bitten and vitriolic every Sunday, and his audience, larger. His "cause" is to "rid our city of every coward liberal Catholic, Jew dog, Protestant brute, and 33rd degree Mason who is trying to suck the soul from good Catholics and sell the true faith for greenbacks...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Father Feeney, Rebel from Church, Preaches Hate, Own Brand of Dogma to All Comers | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

...hope to push sales well over half-billion mark this year, the highest ever. Among the huge assortment of new and ingenious toys are dolls that speak Spanish and French, dolls that say "Mama" when tilted one way and "Papa" when tilted the other, dolls that clap their hands, suck their thumbs, wet their pants ; dolls that sleep, smile or screw up their faces and bawl ("Hedy the Three-Faced Doll"). There are miniature race horses called "Phony Ponies," which are powered by Mexican jumping beans, cows that can be milked, a cowboy costume which, turned inside out. becomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Toys & the King | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

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