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Word: thaws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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More disastrous than the threatened floods, yesterday's unseasonable thaw flushed Lampoon editors out of their Gothic lair and into the streets of Cambridge for the most perverted gag the funnymen have pulled in many a long year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poon Pet Show Enjoys Brief Glory | 2/20/1948 | See Source »

...unexpected thaw set in at Cambridge yesterday, but it had no effect on the snowballing, energetic movement to name Chief Boston '39, last fall's Jayvee football coach, as successor to Richard C. Harlow...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Jayvees Will Canvass Houses With Boston Petition Today | 1/13/1948 | See Source »

Maman, as pretty as ever at 48, thought most about le réveillon. One by one, she cooked the traditional dishes. There was bouillon to thaw the family out when they returned from Mass (the big beef bone was already in the pot). There were tourtières (spicy pork pies), rillettes (pork tidbits to be eaten with bread or thrown into the mouth like candy), croutons (crusty bread browned in pork fat), twelve dozen sugared beignets (doughnuts), tete a fromage (headcheese). Soon the kitchen, then the whole ten-room apartment on Fraser Street, was fragrant with the odor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: La Fete de Noel | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

Then there are beeg mad cocktail parties after the game where we thaw out-and more parties where we keep thawing...

Author: By Bunny Wintergreen, | Title: So You're Off to New Haven, eh... | 11/21/1947 | See Source »

...nunrods have served notice on the Crimson gun club that they would enjoy a skeet shoot on the morning of November 22 in the marsh which generally surrounds the south end of the New Haven railroad station after a heavy thaw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Potshotters Think Better of Piling Pellets upon Pigeons | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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