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Word: trunksful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, when Churchill went for a swim in blue bathing trunks, Italian photographers were hiding in nearby bushes. Police flushed them all out except one; he got some pictures, then tumbled down a slope into police range and got chased too. Churchill waded ashore, shook himself vigorously, stomped into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: The Quiet Life | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Key man in the water battle was David I. Coombs '49, who leaned out of his fourth-floor window and cascaded water down on two Dunster men. One were bathing trunks, and the other was well protected by a rain coat and an inverted grocery box.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chalres River Bath May Cost $20 | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

Men can wear trunks without tops at the beach. Theoretically, they must cover their chests while walking to the beach, but MDC will not enforce this rule unless bathers are so robust that ungainly folds o flab distort the midriff

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chalres River Bath May Cost $20 | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

"Last Outpost." Later, she and her husband pointed out the room where they would hole up if the going really got rough-the pantry. "The bathroom is overhead," explained Mrs. Hawkings, "and that has a thick cement floor. Between the outside walls of the house and the pantry are two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: MRS. HAWKINGS SEES IT THROUGH | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

In Idraetshuset gymnastic hall, Danes and their guests watched in astonishment as a blond Californian ran the badminton trunks off Malaya's great Ooi Teik Hock in the final of the Copenhagen Open. Pasadena-born Dr. Dave Freeman, 28, had not lost a singles match in ten years, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Win & Out | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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