Word: goner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Being a Finlander who got licked in the war 1939-40 (even though the Russians probably said, as Hannibal: One more victory like this and I am a goner), I was particularly delighted to see that my countrymen licked the Russians in the Nordic winter sports [TIME, March i]; but please do not call the Finnish national anthem "Our Lord" in English. Maamme means "Our Country," and is a translation from Johan Ludvig Runeberg's poem Vart Land . . . But I am too delighted to kick about it, and "Our Lord" may be just as good as Maamme when...
...Finger on the Trigger. The rest of the story is Copilot Felix Gaston's: "I thought to myself: I am a dead duck, a goner. Dear Lord, can't I even see my unborn child? I tried everything. I said I had eaten no breakfast and was dizzy. I pretended illness and asked for water and food. But he wouldn't open that door. I offered to intercede with [Defense Secretary Ramon] Magsaysay for him. I said the left engine was stalling and that we had to ditch the plane. I put on a life jacket, gave...
...with dismay when the first heat ended. Soon after Miss Great Lakes II conked out for good with a cracked gear box, Slo-mo IV lost a propeller and also dropped out. On the sixth 3-mile lap, Slo-mo V Driver Lou Fageol knew his boat was a goner: water spewing ominously from the exhaust meant that a cylinder had blown. Detroit's Miss Pepsi won the heat at a speed of 101.0242 m.p.h. in the fastest boat race of all time...
...easy, at least to Doris Ann-assonance . . . homily . . . camellia. But by the end of the fifth round, 28 contenders had been spelled down. Gradually the words got harder-depilatory . . . asthmatic . . . contumacious . , . and one by one the victims fell. At one point, Doris Ann thought that she too was a goner: she spelled hegira with a "j". But after consulting the dictionary, the judges found that hejira was a correct alternative. By round 23 Doris Ann was still standing-with only two other girls left...