Word: going
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tobey: Did you ever contemplate warning the public . . . that these changes are impending and they might go a little slowly in buying the sets...
...touch on everything from farms to funerals, crops to courting, health, weather and insects. He has learned that a dragonfly is a great help in filling out an isogloss. Yankees in some parts of New England call it a devil's darning needle, while some Southern Coast people go for mosquito hawk, and the Pennsylvania-Dutch merely turn the Old Country name for it into English: snake waiter...
...putt to his rival Lewis North of Denver (for a halve), gave the latter's ball a swipe with his putter. Cried North, citing the rule book: "You can't do that-I claim the hole." He got it, too, and Betger had to go 19 holes...
...final round, Betger squared off against a fellow San Franciscan, Ken Towns, 20, student at San Mateo Junior College and part-time handyman about Crystal Springs golf course. The policeman's tee shots, true all week, began to go awry and his putter couldn't have been colder if it had been on ice. Towns closed out the match on the 33rd hole...
...Churches calls this the biggest such proportion in U.S. history. But Council Secretary Dr. Samuel Cavert ruefully notes that only 30% of the total membership-i.e., 30% of the 46,000,000 enrolled Protestants, 25,000,000 Catholics, 5,000,000 Jews, 1,000,000 Eastern Orthodox-go to church with any regularity. "On the surface, at least," says he dryly, "the U.S. appears to be a religious country...