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Word: trough (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ammunition or target practice. Belle Starr and Calamity Jane looked more like Hoss Cartwright than Miss Kitty. Billy the Id has been described as an "adenoidal idiot." And until about 1890, when smokeless powder came into general use, acrobatic gun battles-with snipers falling off balconies into water trough-were unheard of, because each shot kicked up a cloud of acrid black smoke that soon blinded everybody...

Author: By Eugene E. Leach, | Title: Negro Cowboys: Reintegrating the Range | 5/12/1965 | See Source »

Though hard-hit by graduation losses, plagued by student apathy, and riding on the trough of a 33-game losing streak, Crimson coach Rhesus J. Portfolio '00 is "cautiously optimistic" about his team's chances for success this season...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Crimson Sestet Faces New Season; Coach Porfolio Cautiously Hopeful | 4/1/1965 | See Source »

...mothers didn't have time, or should I say, weren't allowed to give their children the proper care they needed and the cook took care of them. They were fed like pigs in a trough, all together. She would cook corn bread and put it in milk. That is the way they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stories and Poems | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...Time for Sergeants is TV's most deserving new show because it would seem to be high time for Sergeants to jump into the television trough and suck up some of the gravy from the hillbilly trend it started as a Broadway play-illiterate mountaineers burbling with uncorruptible goodness. As Will Stockdale, Actor Sammy Jackson ought to make it. Guys pick fights with him and drive their fists against his stomach again and again while he just stands there smiling. Reveille is at 6 a.m., he learned when he started basic last week. "I ain't going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...guide whether it was usual to connect all new buildings to the Tunnel. He replied that the Tunnel is only extended when new buildings are close by. "Otherwise, the expense is prohibitive, and we just join the pipes through a trench." (A trench is a sort of small trough, big enough for pipes and cables but much too small for people.) Since the Tunnel comes down to Lowell House under Linden Street, Holyoke Center is not too far off the track, and a connection big enough for people was feasible. Instead of constructing a full-scale tunnel, however, Buildings...

Author: By Andrew T. Weil, | Title: Travels Through The Harvard Labyrinth | 5/5/1964 | See Source »

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