Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Awkward, Embarrassing." The "London Plot," as the Evening Standard called it, was denounced by many as shady chicanery. Said a London scrubwoman: "I'd never 'ave thought it of 'em." Said Liberal County Councilor Harris: "A scandal. . . deliberately defeating the will of London...
Finally, of course, comes Yale. The Elis have many returning veterans from the crew that scared the Crimson into setting an upstream record on the Thames in June, and in conformance with Coach Skip Walz's "beat 'em till they bleed and then beat'em for bleeding' philosophy, Yale has been working out all year. In December the Blue beat Penn, Princeton, and Cornell by more than a length over a 2,000-meter course at Miami...
...nose. If I tell one of these that I'll give him a pig if he'll fatten ten pigs for me, I'll come back and find one pig fat and the rest skinny. So I tell these guys that I'll give 'em a pig, but don't tell them which one. Then all the pigs...
...exiles, the legion's end meant that nothing short of a thunderbolt could now topple Tacho. Homesick and penniless, they had begun drifting back to make their peace with the porky dictator. He was glad to see them: "I want all Nicaraguans home. I like to have 'em close, so I can keep an eye on them, bless 'em...
...word "sex" was rarely spoken aloud ("It wasn't polite to give it my meaning"). But she bears no real resentment toward Professor Alfred Kinsey: "That guy merely makes it easy for me," she assured Columnist Robert C. Ruark. "Now I don't have to draw 'em any blueprints . . . We are both in the same business . . . Except I saw it first...