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Word: yew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1951-1951
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...vast Okefenokee swamp, with his friends. Among them: Albert, a raffish alligator who smokes cigars, courts a skunk with a French accent, and describes himself as "handsome, brilliant and modest to a fare-thee-well"; Howland Owl, a foolish old bird who crosses a "gee-ranium" plant with a yew tree, hoping to get a "yew-ranium" bush for an atom bomb; the Deacon, a muskrat so elegantly educated that he speaks mostly in Old English script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Possum with Snob Appeal | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

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