Word: conk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York will probably have a typhoon next week," and it goes on to say, "Typhoons hardly ever happen north of Pago Pago, but the way your luck has been running it wouldn't surprise us if it happened to youknowwho. First your water dries up. Your lights conk out. No newspapers, no subways. So why not a tropical storm? Or maybe your sewer system will back up and you'll be riding to work on alligators. We don't have any black outs or water shortages or subway strikes. Matter of fact, our commuter trains are seldom...
Within the month, we must petition for another referendum to divide those two governments in two again. And when we have four student governments, we must petition and vote for eight. ("Divide and conk her," as one auto mechanic said to the other.) For in numbers there is strength...
...finds so many other wonderful things to steal that the sight sobers him and he runs off to collect a more efficient colleague (Ann Sothern). Poor slob, he also collects three predatory teenagers, two boys and a girl, who tail him back to the mansion, snatch his boodle, conk him cold and, finding nothing better to do, kill...
...Conk, Kick, Bash. Brazil was already behind in the three-game series, having lost the first hard fought encounter, 2-4, to the Italians in Milan. But now Santos' eleven-man team was on national ground, and with Brazil's famed "twelfth man"-the crowd-at its back. "Goooooaaaaallllllllll!" howled the mob at each Santos goal; fireworks lit the sky and fans danced in the stands. No wonder that Santos, even playing without its injured superstar Pele (TIME, April 12), won the second game, 4-2, tying...
...third game, it was hardly a game at all. Photographers charged onto the field to conk Milan players with umbrellas; broadcasters bashed Italians with microphones; the Italians retaliated by kicking Santos players in the face, the Brazilians kicked right back. Of the regulation 90 minutes, 39 were spent in furious combat, 51 playing soccer. At last, Santos booted home a penalty shot for a 1-0 victory. Returning home, one of Milan's wounded groaned: "Never in all my soccer days have I seen anything like this...