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Word: unco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe dormitory Social Chairmen have announced an octo-lateral Jolly-up assault in their annual effort to undermine unco-education. The places and dates of their eight experiments in brief encounters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffe Reinaugurates Jolly-it-up Industry | 9/27/1957 | See Source »

Secondly, Bundy feels that much of the "isolationism" of certain Republicans is a "function of the fact that they are members of an opposition party faced by an unco-operative administration which they therefore feel a right and obligation to oppose...

Author: By J.anthony Lukas, | Title: Bundy Supports 'Ike' For Foreign Policy | 10/21/1952 | See Source »

...case could reach the comparative dignity of the courts, Billy Rose and Eleanor Holm began throwing mudpie bulletins at one another in public.* Last week their latest volley of press releases gave Manhattan's joyful tabloids the best copy of the whole hot summer. Billy Rose himself, the unco-smart little bashaw of Broadway, called it "trial by newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The War of the Roses | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...auld tale opens i' bauld fashion, as bonnie Charlie lands i' the Western hi'lands. He gathers the braw clansmen about him i' a unco handsome scene, verra probably set on the only cloudless day i' the recent climes o' Scotia. The skirl o' the pipes, the fearsom' whoops o' the hairy-legged hi'landers and the proud switchin's o' their kilts bode fair to make this a noble screening o' that mirk rebellion o' 1745. But e'en were there ha' sae much blather as the remains of the movie showed, 'twould be wee wonder that the Scotsmen...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Bonny Prince Charlie | 1/29/1952 | See Source »

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