Word: dickson
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...sticker, and athletic ticket books on your person at all times--preferably through a painless surgical procedure--because it will set you back $10 for Harvard to grumble and snap and conjure up replacements from their cartloads of duplicate supplies. It would seem sensible to copy your keys at Dickson Brothers for $1.50, but then, it's against the rules...
...Crimson extended its lead to 49-41 four minutes into the second half, perpetrating the Warrior zone with several in sick drives and keeping Merrimack All-American Joe Dickson away from the boards...
...Dickson's going to be as good a player as we face all year." McLaughlin said. "Considering how well we played him, I think we're in excellent shape...
...Dickson seems to have found a word for just about anything. Under Fizzlers, terms whose time has not yet come, he lists Americaid, one of 22 names proposed by the Nixon Administration in 1972 as a replacement for welfare. And chirtonsor, a euphemism for barber, which won the votes of 3,000 barbers in 1924. And electrolethe, a more genteel version of electric chair. There is even a word, logodaedaly, for "the capricious coining of words...
...Dickson's words have not only definitions but shapes and structures and quirky personalities. Facetiously, he reminds us, is one of the few words in which all the vowels appear in the proper sequence; duoliteral is one of the even fewer in which they all appear backward. Kinnikinnik, he reports, is not only an Indian smoking mixture of bark and leaves but the longest palindrome among the 450,000 entries in Webster's Third New International Dictionary. Cuspidor is the word that James Joyce declared to be the most beautiful in the entire language...