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Word: tits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British-Iranian game of tit for tat was in full swing again. After the earnest, sober interlude of the Harriman mission, Teheran and London were once more trading threats and accusations, with each side hoping to break the other's will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Plenty of Tahmassebis? | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...high winds, he has triumphantly recorded the moorland cry of the greenshank and the "singing" of the seal on the spray-splashed rocks off the Pembrokeshire coast. He is postponing his retirement at least until he can get on wax the elusive stone curlew and the long-tailed tit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Wurz Debur | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...Like its U.S. cousin, the chickadee, Britain's tit has been taught to relish the meat of coconuts hung on a garden tree.) One Times reader, the bird-loving Countess of Cawdor, took a more ominous view of the matter. "Could it be," she mused darkly, "that it is we ourselves whose mad behavior has affected the tits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORA & FAUNA: Coconuts & Sausage Meat | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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