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Word: tugged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...next morning a tug spotted the Truculent's emergency marker buoy. The web-booted, goggled divers, known in the service as "frogmen," battled all morning to reach the hull of the sub. At 12:25 p.m., the frogmen sent up a chilling message: "No signals can be heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Off Shivering Sand | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

Sands of Iwo Jima (Republic) is a war picture that bristles and booms with enough clips from official combat films to give its audience a realistic touch of battle fatigue. The rest of it is just plain fatiguing; the plot has no more freshness or emotional tug than a military manual, and it is peopled by a movie-hardened cast of characters who have served too many hitches on Hollywood's back-lot battlefields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jan. 16, 1950 | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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