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Word: trunksful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the ring, Rocky looked rusty from his layoff. He fought clumsily but cleanly, missing with a lot of roundhouse rights. But by the fifth round, he had connected often enough to bloody his opponent's eyes, and Rocky's white trunks looked like a butcher's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rooky's Road Back | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

The sad denudement occurred last week when a hundred pairs of rowing trunks and sweat shirts burned in a fire at the Bob Cook boathouse in Derby, Connecticut.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yalies Lose Nether Garments In Boathouse Conflagration | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

"Yes," said Gus, "it's almost time to hang up the trunks." That was about a month ago, when he was feeling his age. At 33, he was an old man among boxers, even though the sportwriters had just crowned him 1947's Fighter of the Year. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Good Old Gus | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

How did Giuseppe feel about his reception? Said he, in the one word of American he learned from G.I.s during the war: "O.K." Born in Sicily, Giuseppe studied for the priesthood until he was 15 and found a girl. ("Until then I thought parents bought children in the market place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Giuseppe Arrives | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

When Abbott Joseph ("Joe") Liebling was six, he read in a New York newspaper that a heavyweight named Carl Morris was the White Hope to lick World Champion Jack Johnson. A couple of days later, a fighter named Jim Flynn licked the trunks off the White Hope. That was in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wayward Pressman | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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