Word: dink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history, Pearson briefly stuffed sausages in the Hamilton, Ont., branch of Armour & Co. (he was later to be accused by the Soviet news agency, Tass, of starting his career in an armaments factory). Saturdays, he played third base for the semi-pro Guelph Maple Leafs. "No batter," says Teammate Dink Carroll, now a Montreal Gazette sports columnist, "but a good glove man." When promoted to clerkship in Armour's Chicago fertilizer works, he applied for, and got, a scholarship to Oxford...
...swings one cat, "Mr. President, bang-de-dawd-o-dawd, do you think-de-ding-di-dink the education bill will pass, dingy dong de-doong...
...Hinky Dink's. The Trader does little to discourage the legend that his leg was snipped off by an unfriendly shark in the islands. But the story is as unreal as his menu. Born in California, he grew up in Oakland, where his parents ran a small grocery. At the age of six, a tuberculosis attack cost him his left leg; despite the handicap, Bergeron was so agile on his crutches that he played for his grammar school soccer team. He quit school at 16, two years later was able to buy his first wooden leg. For the next...
During Tom Brown's school days at Rugby a century ago, for fastidious Dink Stover going up to Yale in 1912, down to Catcher's supercilious modern hero, Hoiden Caulfield, the big deal for the well-dressed schoolboy and collegian has always been flannel. In the last decade alone, flannel for boys' and students' suits has topped all other suit fabrics in the U.S. each year without exception. But last week fabled flannel was on the way out. In 1960 worsteds will be the most popular fabric for youthful suits, followed by hopsackings, with flannel toppling...