Word: cuff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beacon, after assuring itself that Squire had a good reputation for veracity and reliability, decided to issue its state-wide call for a saucer-watch. To spread the alarm further, the Beacon wanted the Associated Press state wire to carry it. The A.P. stuffily refused, giving the off-the-cuff explanation that flying saucers, like a golfer's hole in one, should be verified by at least two people...
...Eisenhower's decision to speak off the cuff as much as possible has helped to get him across to his audiences. Ike, however, sometimes seems to have a balloon up that cuff. A sentence will start simply, belly out and break loose from its grammatical moorings. Sometimes it lands safely, sometimes it floats on & on. Sample free balloons from last week...
Treasure Chest. In Yonkers, N.Y., when police asked him where he had hidden the jewelry he stole, Clayton Cuff, 20, was speechless, gasped for breath, coughed up a $425 diamond ring...
Even before the N.E.A. convention, its headquarters had issued a sharp statement defending N.E.A. leadership, and charging distortions and inaccuracies in the article. Out-of-date statements by Rugg and others, said the N.E.A., must be read as off-the-cuff theorizing that never was accepted by the N.E.A...
...years spiritual leader of Galveston's Temple B'nai Israel, whom Woodrow Wilson called "the First Citizen of Texas"; in Houston. British-born Henry Cohen came to Galveston in 1888, soon became famous for scurrying through the streets and stopping to jot down on his long, white cuff ("my notebook") the names of those he must help, regardless of creed ("There is no such thing as Methodist mumps, Baptist domestic troubles, Presbyterian poverty or Catholic broken legs"). His interest in parole work was sparked by Author O. Henry, a onetime convict, and he became a leader in Texas...