Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last message to Congress on the State of the Union, determined to speak his valedictory in the calm, reasoning voice of the statesman. At 11:15 one night last week-late by Truman standards-he finished going over the fifth draft, left his speechwriters working well past midnight to buff the rough edges...
...Delta's President Collett Everman Woolman, 63, who will boss the new line, the merger was the latest in a series of expansions that have boosted Delta from a small, crop-dusting outfit to a seat near the top. A lifelong aviation buff, Woolman, while a student at the University of Illinois, worked his way to France on a cattle boat to a world aviation meet...
Kinsey is a solidly built man with greying, buff-colored hair in a short pompadour, eyes that vary between blue and hazel, and a sensitive, rather tense mouth above a hard jaw. His wife, whom he calls "Mac," was a graduate student of chemistry, and has been a great help. Being scientifically trained, she raised no objection at all when he started his work on sex, and sometimes she helps him in the office typing confidential documents. She teaches classes in swimming, runs the local Girl Scout camp, and loves the great outdoors...
...report, a few just to watch and, at least one, just in case. They range from doctors to deans, from doddering "H"-men to varsity athletes, from regular sports writers to "stringers," as the local correspondents for the Boston dailies are known. All have one thing in common: a buff-colored card signed by W. Henry Johnston, director of sports information. This card is to prove to the sophomore managers guarding the gate that the bearer is not from Princeton...
...Labor M.P. crouching naked in a willow tree, with 40 Scottish housewives prancing below and screeching: "Come doon, ye mangy tod, and I'll buff your beef!"? Why does a stern Presbyterian minister stand by waving a two-handed sword and bellowing: "There is a harvest still, a harvest of thistles and of tares, for the sword of Gideon...