Word: foisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trundling tripe around Europe merely confirms the average European's impression that we are cultural boors. These so-called A.E. artists are a collection of bone-lazy, pseudo-bohemians who foist five-minute brush floppings onto the usual gullible, snobbish suckers...
Before a House Judiciary subcommittee last fall (TIME, Oct. 1), ASCAP Sympathizer Sinatra charged that Mitch Miller had tried to foist BMI songs on him while Frankie was at Columbia (Miller produced statistics in an effort to disprove the charge). In his telegram last week, Sinatra stated that Miller, Frankie's longtime bogey, had admitted accepting "large sums of money" from writers whose songs he recorded. Sinatra quoted Miller's words from sworn testimony: "Bob Merrill [responsible for If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd 've Baked a Cake and other hit tunes] would bring...
King charged that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was closing the doors of opportunity to Negroes by arousing the antagonisms of whites. Negroes that belong to it are the "real Uncle Toms"-those that foist themselves upon white society because they feel inferior. "It is impossible," said King, "for the ordinary Negro to feel close to the N.A.A.C.P. save only in a superficial sense...
Your making a composite picture of a motley crew of trigger-happy poets, callow youths, delinquent teenagers, gun molls and other Hungarian riffraff and trying to foist them off on us Americans as the "Man of the Year" is a piece of journalism that is not only unique but should stand out as the acme of effrontery...
White was born in Brooklyn, where he attended Polytechnic Preparatory School and learned to speak a vocabulary in which "first" is still "foist." When he came to Harvard, he knew only six people in his class, but he widened his acquaintance by trying out for football manager (unsuccessfully), stroking a 150-lb. crew in his sophomore year (his shell got tangled in high grass during a race against Middlesex School), and writing for the Lampoon...