Word: hipped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby; in Louisville. He frequently boosted the Derby in verse ("Any Irishman who couldn't write poetry about a thorough bred horse ought to be chloroformed"), once said that TIME'S description of the Downs as "shabby" made him "Reach for his hip pocket...
Triumph. For A. P. Giannini, who had once peddled vegetables, it was enough to meditate in fierce and profane triumph. He still had enemies, but he had smitten the big ones hip & thigh. Wall Street, and the "goddamned Eastern bankers" who had once tried to swallow him, could only watch him impotently now, with half-reluctant admiration. This week, after 42 years of struggle, his Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association, which covers California with 494 branches in over 300 cities, had become the biggest private bank in the world. Once before, Bank of America had passed Manhattan...
...Master teed up against Byron Nelson, 34, the modern mechanical marvel. Most of the way, Jones matched Nelson shot for shot. Bobby's haymaker swing, accentuated wrist motion, and hula hip motion seemed incurably individualistic beside Byron's three-quarters swing, and minimum of motion...
...greatest of them all. He told his story with quiet authority, as though lecturing to a class, underscoring his points with deliberate gestures of his well-kept hands. He still sounded rather bored; only occasionally did he show signs of nervousness-when he reached for his hip pocket, as though searching...
...nose died. Sadly, Surgeon de Souza explained: too much time had elapsed between the injury and the operation. Hopefully, he offered to carve a new nose from José's hip and graft it on his face. José shook his head, he murmured: "Perhaps some day I will kill that burglar. When the judge asks me why, it will be as plain...