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Word: whoring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phone call made that afternoon to the Camacho home by the unknown men the only call the Camachos could be exact about on the time. In this call, several members of the family and a friend on the party line heard the caller use such words as "whore, prostitute, son of a bitch," and phrases like "you'd better watch your wife, mister, we've all been in bed with...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Pair ClaimP hone Case 'Frame-Up' | 5/24/1952 | See Source »

...height, Nelly's coach was mobbed by Whigs, who thought it carried the King's Catholic mistress, the Duchess of Portsmouth. Never at a loss, Nell stuck her head out of the window and bellowed: "Pray, good people, be civil. I am the Protestant whore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Darling Strumpet | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...examiners rewarded Weissberg with 24 hours of food and sleep. Refreshed, he boldly recanted the whole document. "You whore! You counter-revolutionary bandit!" raged the examiner, shoving him back on the stool. Weissberg stood it another four days, "confessed" again, again recanted. He then stood the "conveyer" for a further five days-and staggered out triumphant. From then on, the G.P.U. merely kept him in prison and beat him up occasionally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Survivor of the Purge | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

Persecutors Pass Away. Hatred of sin in itself, said Williams, is one of the true marks of a true Christian. The worldly and unregenerate "can only hate the damages and disgrace and discredit of it; and so may a whore hate whoredom. 'Tis only the property of God's children and the newborn to hate sin as sin, with the sinful appearance of it, as opposite to their new and heavenly nature in Jesus Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Encouragement for Mary | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...festival music directors, Gottfried von Einem and Bernhard Paumgartner, suggested last fall that it was high time for a look at the atonalist's operatic masterpiece, Wozzeck (TIME, April 23)-and the battle was on. Claimed the Bergophobes: Wozzeck uses unsuitable language (e.g., whore); it is "dark and depressing"; its 15 scene changes would make the production unwieldy and expensive. But the Bergophiles won out, and the phobes sat back to watch the project fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Victory for Berg | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

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