Word: deepful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which Truman loves to retell. The sixth U.S. President, John Quincy Adams, he said, delighted in early-morning plunges off the backyard riverbank. One morning an enterprising newspaper woman, Anne Royall, trapped President Adams in swimming, sat on his clothes and demanded an interview. In the buff and chin-deep in the water, Adams surrendered, and sounded off about the day's issues until Newshen Royall retreated with her story...
...attributed the sneezing to a "nerve impingement" in Michael's spine, managed to reduce the sneezes to a mere 240 per hour by vigorous adjustment. But Michael had hardly left the chiropractor's office before the sneeze rate soared again. Hypnotist Norman Waters sent Michael into a deep trance and intoned: "You are not going to sneeze. When I snap my fingers you will wake up and tell your mother, 'I have stopped sneezing.' " Waters snapped his fingers and Michael woke with a violent kerchoo...
Francis Birch, professor of Geology and an expert on the properties of rocks deep in the earth, will become Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology this fall...
...world turns its back on his views. In Generation of Vipers, where his views made a little sense, however overstated they may have been, Wylie was impressive for his stark anger at the course of U.S. civilization. In Opus 21, he buries a few pinheads of truth so deep in bad taste and bad writing that his message, if any, is lost in the muck, and his jeremiad itself is silly...
...pounced on three Cadet pitchers for 13 hits, their second highest total of the season. This attack included a triple by Ernie Mannino and a homer by Cliff Crosby, which, coming right next to each other, had Arnold Galiffa prancing all over left field, from the foul line into deep left center. Galiffa appeared in left for the first time this season (he usually plays first) in a move calculated to pack more power in to the Army lineup...