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Word: thunderin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were invented (caucus, lynch-law, squatter), improvised (sockdolager, spondulix, absquatulate), and embellished (kerflop, kerthump, kersouse). The general exuberance also burst out in political oratory and tall talk ("Bust me wide open if I didn't bulge into the creek in the twinkling of a bedpost, I was so thunderin' savagerous"). It spilled over in the invincible optimism with which new towns called themselves cities, hotel was any flea-bitten tavern, and opera house meant any public hall, with or without a roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Growth of Identity | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

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