Word: butts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incidence of cheating appears to be dependent on what is being tested. The most dishonest answer papers, Cozma reported, are found among those turned in for admission to Law School. Butt even here, he added, the percentage is small...
...Australia the Duke of Edinburgh became the butt of some friendly hazing when he dropped in for a look at Melbourne University. As he stepped from his car, an honor guard of students, bearing mops and dressed as Eastern potentates, rolled out a moth-eaten carpet...
Good Emil. His German air force training started with ill-fitting uniforms and clodhopper boots, loneliness, the desire to "bash [the NCO] over the head with a rifle butt," the eternally drummed-in theme: "You have got to be tough as Krupp's steel...
...rear engine the butt of many a joke. Sample: First American, looking under the hood of his stalled Volkswagen: "No wonder it won't run. I must have lost my engine." Second American, approaching from his own Volkswagen: "Don't worry; you're lucky. I just looked in the trunk compartment, and they've given me a spare...
...rifle is not as good as the newly developed British .280. Sandhurstman Churchill, "having had some contact with questions affecting rifles over the last sixty years," pointed out that the Belgian rifle had certain advantages over the .280 that less experienced M.P.s might not appreciate. "It has a butt-remember that," he rumbled. "It is very important when one has no ammunition left to have a butt on one's rifle. That does not always occur to the technician"-evoking a vision of the young Churchill swinging a rifle on South Africa's dusty slopes...