Word: hip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors (now defunct) that first brought Mexican mural painting to the world's attention, was expounding his theories. Up from a rear row seat suddenly sprang the best-known member of that syndicate, Diego Rivera, who yanked a revolver from his hip pocket, pointed it straight at his old companion-in-paint...
...cause him to fall headlong into puddles of contradiction. Mr. Hopson would flush, sputter, say he had not understood the question. Before the end of his first day's examination, Mr. Hopson made a significant answer to a significant question: "I don't recall. You have me on the hip...
...walking around and babbling to himself, oblivious of the dead and dying, even oblivious of the dagger-like sliver of steel that stuck out of his streaming wrist; a pretty girl with her forehead laid open, trying hopelessly to crawl out of a ditch in spite of her smashed hip. A first-class massacre of that sort is only a question of scale and numbers...
...days later, in his brother's Saranac Lake camp, Governor Earle stepped on a punky floor board, crashed through, painfully wrenched his right leg and hip...
...good shots, scarcely glancing at his putts, wisecracking loudly to his caddy. Colonel William Lawson Little, watching his famed son & namesake try to win his second major British title of the season, found that a $1,200 letter of credit and several cashable checks had been extracted from his hip pocket by a thief who "had the impertinence to button it up again...