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Word: splattered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mallee's railroad sidings the mice scratched at the iron sides of wheat bins. The noise was like the splatter of freshly tarred gravel on a thousand auto fenders. Telephones crackled and spluttered as the hungry hordes chewed at the insulation on the wires. For the cats of Mallee it was the chance of a lifetime. But the mousers were sated. With mice by the millions in the fields and roads, the cats merely brushed the mice out of their paths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: The Mice of Mallee | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...rude. Just when manners seemed to be improving, along comes your magazine, grabs Grandma Literary Digest by the seat of her inner chaps, and throws her clear out of the literary corral. Then your writers began spitting through their teeth to show how smart they were and began to splatter us with them there grammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 12, 1941 | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...seem to drag in spite of honest acting, deft direction, superb photography and Richard Hageman's salty musical score. Best shot: the Glencairn's crew plastered prone on the ship's deck, with only the roar of Stukas, the splash of bombs on the water, the splatter of machine-gun bullets on the white canvas to indicate a Nazi bombing raid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unpulled Punches | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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