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Word: weede (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state employees for years were required to "contribute" 2% of their salaries to campaign war chests. Under loudmouthed Governor (1935-39 and 1955-59) Albert ("Happy") Chandler, eight $7,200-a-year highway commissioners traveled Kentucky's highways and byways dispensing jobs and rounding up votes; so many weed cutters were hired by the highway department around election time that Kentuckians ruefully calculated the number at two cutters for each weed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: New Track | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...Pounds, at one point carrying his valet in his valise. Best of all was Songstress-Comedienne Tammy Grimes, summing up the history of American women in popular songs; her smoky voice got everything but the filter feedback out of that 18th century smash, Tobacco's but an Indian Weed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Wise Is on Adjective | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

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