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Word: yummiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trusting eyes peer myopically but ingratiatingly at the world. In the words of the greatest living authority on shmoos: "They lays aigs at th' slightest excuse! They also gives milk. And as fo' meat-broiled, they makes th' finest steaks; fried, they come out th' yummiest chicken." The shmoo is so sensitive and so eager to please that when a human merely looks at it with a faint suggestion of hunger, the animal falls flat on its back and dies of happiness, all ready for the frying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Harvest Shmoon | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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