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Word: tautog (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...leaky rubber boat; of how the Angler took aboard a batch of refugees which included a two-year-old, half-Filipino boy who was "smoking (and inhaling) a cigar between gulps of his dinner which he was receiving at his mother's breast"; of how the Tautog, with Mohammedan VIPs aboard, swung its nose toward Mecca at prayer time, three times a day; of how Captain John P. Cromwell, entrusted with top-secret information, went down with the scuttled Sculpin rather than risk capture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Take Her Down | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

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