Word: aver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mason City homefolks, grabbed a baton and proudly led a 208-piece band (with, naturally, 76 trombones and no cornets) down the main street, later uncorked lus ire at rock 'n' roll: "It's a plague as far-reaching as any plague we've aver had. My preoccupation with this creeping paralysis is not with the lascivious quality, the suggestive dancing that goes with it. This is bad, and it's been condemned before. My complaint is that it just isn't music. It's utter garbage. This music stupefies these kids...
Saturday, the freshman face a strong Yale quintet, which has lost only two games. The Elis beast a 6 ft., 10 in-center and two rugged forwards aver-aging...
Culinary nomenclature subtly manages to convey certain historic sidelights. Metternich, whose name on any menu stands for paprika, was a firm enemy of Hungarian nationalism but a great lover of Hungary's national spice. The Esterhazy family, gastronomic historians aver, oscillated for centuries between opulence and (relative) frugality: one generation would have to economize by eating things like beefsteak a la Esterhazy (made from a cheaper cut of meat) because their heedless fathers had eaten too many Tournedos a la Metternich...