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Word: tails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

When I was young I used to wait On master and give him his plate, And pass the bottle when he got dry, And brush away the blue-tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Blue-Tail Fly | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...ride around the farm, The flies so numerous, they did swarm. One chanced to bite him on the thigh; The devil take the blue-tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Blue-Tail Fly | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

According to Carl Sandburg, it was one of Abe Lincoln's favorite songs. Nobody knows who wrote it, but its words got into print in 1848, in the Ethiopian Glee Book. About five years ago tubby troubadour Burl Ives first heard The Blue-Tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Blue-Tail Fly | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

Dream of Eating. They caught two small fish and once Zamperini grabbed a baby shark by its tail and flipped it into the raft. By the same kind of desperate alertness they caught three small birds and four albatrosses which lit innocently on their rubber boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Endurance of Lou Zamperini | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...from a fog bank, shot toward PerAlemánn's DC-2. The fighter whipped overhead, barely missed crashing squarely into the transport's fuselage. There was a sharp bump and it thundered into a spin. One of the transport's propellers had cut off its tail assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Near Miss | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

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