Word: fag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dukes Must Fag. Eton's apologists point out that it has its own kind of democracy. Unlike other English public schools. where masters appoint boys as prefects and monitors, elected student committees govern Eton. The 20-odd top boys who make "Pop" run the sports, carry out the school rules, enforce discipline. and get special privileges. Even young dukes and princes must "fag" (do chores) for older Eton boys. To prove that this system teaches both obedience and leadership. Etonians point proudly to products like the Duke of Wellington,* ten Prime Ministers, including Gladstone, the elder Pitt...
...Green scoring punch, spearheaded by Bruce Cunliffe and center Bruce Mather, has accounted for 90 goals to date. All told, the Green have annexed 11 out of their last 13 games, Colorado handing them their only loss at the fag end of their transcontinental road trip...
...Emanuel Shinwell, wife of Britain's Minister of Fuel and Power, got a grip on her fag and cleaning rag and gave the world a great-man's-helpmeet-at-home picture that was really believable for a change...
...cigar-fogged suite in Washington's Shoreham Hotel, negotiators for the nation's soft-coal operators drooped dejectedly. For a weary month they had failed to lure labor's one-man theater into writ-fag a new contract for his United Mine Workers. Now the nation was living on stored coal. And now, because his only specific demand (for a miners' health & welfare fund) had been turned down, Lewis was about to halt even the pretense of negotiation. Balefully he intoned...
...Important Things. For six long years the news had come from overseas. In war-jammed cities the important things of existence had been steel shavings coiling from a machine tool, the glare of a welding torch, the sound of riveting gun and typewriter, the brain fag and weariness of overwork. But now the U.S. experienced the quiet clarity of eye and mind which comes after a long fever...