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Word: whatsit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resort-town whatsit shops, where summer visitors unload old paperbacks, a good used thriller is rarely in stock. Biographies, gothics, sex novels abound. But whodunits tend to linger on in vacation cottages until, in a welter of unglued clues, they spill apart. This summer at least four volumes will be read to shreds by season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crushers and Subgumshoes | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

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