Word: butt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SITTING contentedly on the banks of the Illinois River in the very heartland of America, Peoria has for years been the butt of jokes, the gagman's tag for Nowheresville. "How come you got married?" "Well, I was booked into Peoria and it was raining." Today that humor is as stale as the idea of Peoria as a backwater of national life. The Peoria of 1966 welcomes more foreign visitors than just about any other U.S. city of its size (pop. 133,000), and sends its citizens abroad to range the world. The bartender at the Pere Marquette Hotel...
...preventive was exhibited by the Stryker Corp. at the American Congress of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in San Francisco. Dr. Wayman Spence, a 29-year-old resident at Ohio State University Hospital, worked on the theory that "you don't have to float the whole body-just the butt." Spence observed that the body protects itself from friction by fatty tissues that move under pressure but return to their original shape when pressure is removed. As a substitute for natural cushions, he first tried placing wads of soft pie dough under his patients, then lumps of a children...
...three flights of steps to the 30th floor. There, at a desk next to the glass-paneled door that opens onto the observation deck, he encountered Receptionist Edna Townsley, 47, a spirited divorcee and mother of two young sons. Whitman bashed her head in, probably with a rifle butt, with such force that part of her skull was torn away, also shot her in the head. Then he left her behind a sofa...
...favorite butt of early TIME baiters was the distinctive and mannered style in which the magazine was written during its formative years. In a famous 1936 New Yorker parody, the late Wolcott Gibbs caricatured that style in the classic line: "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind." Our sentences no longer run backward (or hardly ever), but the spoofs continue. More recently, The New Yorker commented on our occasional tendency to use active, colorful verbs, and claimed that people in our pages always "groan, coo, snarl, taunt, thunder, chortle, crack, intone, growl, drawl," etc. The same article suggested that...
...Europeans," he charged. "Kenyatta is told what to do by the Americans. The whites should all be kicked out. You see them walking along, smoking their cigarettes and not looking anyone in the face. Why should we have to come along behind them and pick up their butt ends?" The antiwhite line worked well in Luo country, but in the cities it fell as fiat as the African beer doled out by the gourdful at the polling places. Victory was just what Jomo had predicted. When the results were in, his triumphant KANU candidates feasted on roast oxen-a symbolic...