Word: dogpatch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Industrially, too, the atomic bomb may save more money than it cost ($2,000,-000,000). A. L. Baker of the Kellex Corp. of Oak Ridge (code name: Dogpatch), Tenn. last week issued an impressive list of non-atomic advances made while the bomb was in production. Among them...
Into that brand-new city (called Dogpatch) flooded weird equipment: thousands of powerful, new-type pumps, gigantic electromagnets, innumerable other machines and instruments. Amid oceans of mud and battlefront confusion, they finally found their places. Both plants were successful, produced effective quantities of precious...
Sadie Hawkins is an ugly manchaser in the comic strip Li'I Abner, which deals with life in the hillbilly village of Dogpatch. Other characters: Li'l Abner, a handsome hayseed; Daisy Mae, his shapely, briefly-clad admirer; Pansy Yokum, his mother; Lonesome Polecat and Loathsome Polecat, Indians. The idea for Sadie Hawkins Day at Yale belonged to Sophomore John Maclean. Having heard that such celebrations had already been held in several freshwater colleges, Maclean persuaded fellow News editors to invite girls and turn them loose in Dogpatch costumes to chase Yale men in Yale's Bowl...
Unabashed, the News got the high-ranking fraternity Chi Psi to stage a Sadie Hawkins dance, arranged to brew for the affair Dogpatch's favorite drink, Kickapoo Joy-Juice, invited Li'l Abner's Creator Al Capp to the celebration, sent application forms to women's colleges...