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Word: uppish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marx, Engels, commissars or strikes. He was polite, played squash, drank bourbon and once enlivened a New Washington Hotel stag party by dropping to his heels and doing the "kazatski." After he had been in Seattle a while (he came in 1942), some people who had been a little uppish about Russians began to think better of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Don't Go Near the Water | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...some of the best entries have plots. A good one: Mary King's The White Bull, in which a farmer and his family declare war on a magnificent white Brahma bull owned by an uppish neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: O'Brien's Last | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

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