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Word: spluttered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corner in the surrounding maze of streets . . . and the lurid-seeming creatures that glide from nowhere into nothing-Arab, Laskar, Pacific Islander, Chinky, Hindoo, and so on, each carry ing his own perfume. You know, too . . . the cobbly courts, the bestrewn alleys, through which at night gas jets asthmatically splutter; and the mephitic glooms and silences of the dockside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mephitic Glooms | 8/19/1974 | See Source »

...sisters-one notably played by Jill Ben nett (Mrs. John Osborne)-is pierced by nostalgia when the old writer reminisces about damp England, colonial days, his own youth when he never really felt young. The latter-day equivalent of Jimmy Porter, a visiting American hippie, can only splutter four-letter words in return, the abstract tokens of a rage that is blind and almost dumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Pick of the London Season | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

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