Word: fin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fighting the Fin...
...Mayor of Boston, Curley is forever at words points with the Boston Finance Commission. The Commission (or the Fin Com as it is most commonly called) is a five-man board appointed by the governor to keep a constant eye on the city's financial condition. Since the state government was Republican during most of Curley's administration, the Fin Com was generally very hostile to him; even during his first administration when the late Senator David I. Walsh, a democrat, was governor, the members of the Fin Com bitterly fought Curley's spending. But, for all their efforts...
...house in Chicago than off swimming in London. Even when Wally came home with the zoo-meter free-style championship, his dad, a Polish emigrant who speaks only a little English, balked at letting him go to Bermuda to swim again. He stuck a paintbrush in Wally's fin, and spoke one word of English forcibly: "Commence...
...times: Remembrance of Things Past. Even the most fanatical Proustians will have to grant that Pleasures and Regrets, now translated into English for the first time, is a trivial book. Languid little pseudo-pastoral sketches bedecked with whipped-cream imagery, pallid reflections on life and love in the sickliest fin de siècle manner, soft-jellied tales about soft-jellied love affairs-this is the picture the reader gets of the early Proust...
Bass Instinct. Near Whiteville, Tenn., Fisherman William Dower reported an attack: he was fishing peacefully when a large bass leaped from the water, knocked off his glasses, struck him on the temple, gashed him with a fin, victoriously dove back...