Word: baa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baa of Sheep. "Of course it's not the fault of the Americans," a French labor union official admitted, "but psychologically the experience has been catastrophic. When the U.S. arrived here it had a chance to show how workers are treated back in America. Instead, it sat back and let a French contracting company run the show. The workers, seeing the American flag, put all the blame on the Americans...
Meanwhile, the symbol of U.S. air power in France sits hub-deep in the mud, while the sheep baa contentedly along the runways of Merignac field...
...mina, tethera, methera) became "Eena, meena, mina, mo"; and Westmorland's hevera,devera,dick (eight, nine and ten) is the most likely origin of "Hickory, dickory, dock." In the 18th Century, "Hot Cross Buns / One a penny / Two a penny" was a street vendor's cry. "Baa, baa, black sheep / Have you any wool?" probably dates back to the export tax imposed on wool in 1275. The "Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie" goes back to the Renaissance, when live birds really were put in pies, ready to fly out when...
...Yong Ham of Korea won the annual BAA marathon yesterday in 2:32:39; John Lafferty was the first American, at 2:39:52; and David L. Smith '51 was the first Harvard finisher, somewhere around 4:20. Smith was 71st...