Word: dudgeons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy racket, long known as the "bug," was flourishing more than ever. Its headquarters, wrote Collins, had shifted from Atlanta to nearby Clayton County, where residents complained of "prostitution, bootlegging . . . brawling in the roadhouses and occasional slayings." Said Collins: the local cops are doing nothing about it. In high dudgeon, Clayton County's Sheriff W. L. Dickson wrote the editors challenging Collins to prove that there was anything wrong in the county. Said Collins: "That made...
...starting TIME (with its "double-breasted seersucker" et al.) had to do it again by quoting Dan Parker's suggestions for the Russians who say they will compete in the 1952 Olympic Games [Parker samples: "the heel-and-toe walkout," "the running high dudgeon"-TIME...
...Prompting New York Mirror Columnist Dan Parker to suggest some new Olympic events. Samples: "the heel-and-toe walkout," "the running high dudgeon," "the erroneous conclusion jump," and "hurling the invective...
...Labor was in high dudgeon last week over the handling of mobilization. To Washington officials stormed the A.F.L.'s William Green and the C.I.O.'s Philip Murray to file their complaints. They saw President Truman, Mobilizer Charles Wilson and Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston, whose big hello and sympathetic ear did little to calm them down. The mobilization program, grumbled Green and Murray, was being run by big business. To this, both Johnston and Wilson had an answer: they were willing to give a top union leader a top job if he took it on full-time just...