Word: fink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Take the Dame. Across the land this football season, the great American college song has become the great American mumble. In a day when Hail to Thee, Oh Fink might best express "school spirit," the old Alma Mater idea seems "too hot-rocket" to kids unwilling to give "that kind of allegiance just to a college." Dissenters refuse to rise and sing because "your blanket falls off." Princeton hearts pound at Old Nassau, but Princeton mouths go da di da. Even Georgia Tech's "ramblin' wrecks" sing to the Alma Mater in a vast hum, as of bees...
...right, but why did she fall? Where did she fink...
Edward P. McSweeney, vice-president of the Metropolitan District Commission, confirmed that the Drive would "probably" be widened, but the man directly in charge of construction, chief park engineer Benjamin W. Fink, said he had only "a vague conception" of the underpass. The MDC, an autonomous agency that controls Memorial Drive and other parkways, owns the strip of land along the Charles and can seize property by eminent domain...
...Fink said the Boston engineering firm of Jackson and Moreland was conducting traffic and physical surveys of the Drive in order to draft preliminary plans, which would be ready in December. "I'd be crazy to say anything until preliminary plans are accepted," he declared...
...Cleveland teen-agers imitate Ghoulardi as if he were the exemplar deity of an unimaginably perfect race. When he invented the word Knif-fink spelled backward-and began offering Knif buttons, he got requests for thousands. High school teachers hold spelling bees between Knifs and Ghoulardis, and football coaches similarly divide their teams for intrasquad scrimmages. One day Anderson said: "All the world's a purple Knif." Now every kid in Cleveland is saying that. He thinks the name Oxnard, as in Oxnard, Calif., is hilarious. He named a crow Oxnard. Kids all over the Cleveland area are calling...