Word: clouted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gabor, doing a TV guest shot with Johnny Carson, was zeroing in on her targets for Tonight: Hollywood Chronicler Sheilah Graham and Hearst Society Scribe Suzy, who often give Zsa Zsa the benefit of a clout. Sheilah pretended she hadn't heard. But not Suzy. "Hungarian blabbermouth," "Fatty," "Miss Tank Town," she wrote. "Zsa Zsa has an age complex, and in her case she has a right to one. I'll spot her ten years. My nose is the one I was born with, and I've never had my face lifted...
...Clout in Chicago...
...before, the patient gets a preanes-thetic, usually a barbiturate, to quiet him down. In the morning, he may get more of the same, or a morphine-type drug, or both. Next, atropine to help keep mucus from clogging his air passages. In the operating room at last, a clout of barbiturate (often thiopental sodium) to put him to sleep. Then the anesthesiologist rigs the patient with a mask-or, especially for chest operations, a tube inserted through the mouth and down the windpipe. Even that is not all in many cases: an intravenous drug resembling curare (arrow poison) relaxes...
...rowdy rhythm and its imperishable lustiness. Chicago can no more do without its bawdy peep shows or its cackling Paddy Baulers than it can do without its Fields, its Swifts-and its Dick Daleys. In its own broad-shouldered way, in its anatomy and in the art of its clout, in its indestructible zest for life, Chicago is a man among cities...
...Giants, putting him in the select company of such baseball tycoons as Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, and Ted Williams. In the 1962 season, Mays, 31, led both leagues in home runs with 49, batted in 141 runs. He hit .304 for the year, and it was his home run clout in the last regular-season game against the Houston Colts that sent the Giants into a playoff with the Los Angeles Dodgers and then into the World Series. Al ready the highest-paid active player in baseball (the aging Musial now gets an estimated $70,000), Centerfielder Mays...