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Word: usufruct (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...evening which climaxed when my roommate marched indignantly into the Underdog, a restaurant which was already doing a surprisingly thriving business, and demanded that the owner immediately divest his store of its pinball machine, as his contribution to suppressing the Mafia. My roommate claims that the Mafia has a usufruct on all pinball machines and devotes most of the profits from them to hooking ghetto children on heroin, but even if this is true I suspect that he was also influenced by the amount on money he had lost playing pinball the week before. So maybe the cat was finally...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: What Did the Cat Do to the Bathtub Down the Hall? | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

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