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Word: unstarch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wary Congress prepared to open hearings on John Kennedy's" broad new bill to expand U.S. trade abroad, the President tried shrewdly last week to unstarch the protectionists' arguments. He released the facts and figures of the final tariff-chopping deal under the expiring Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act to show that his Yankee traders did very well indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: Trade Fight: Round I | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

...Season of Mists, by Honor Tracy. Part hoyden, part waif, and part Irish, this comic author loves to unstuff shirts, unstarch pomposity, and rip the cotton batting out of fuzzy minds. In her latest novel, an aging, 18-year-old Lolita dynamites a rich art fancier's ivory tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sep. 1, 1961 | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

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