Word: inked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only strength and prime condition, but an astonishing ability to pick the fastest (not always the shortest) route to the finish line. Sailer's word for his technique is Tuschen, a Kitzbühel slang term that may derive from the word for brush strokes in an ink drawing, and somehow seems to fit the smooth, effortless swing down the slopes to an endless list of championships...
Then the Committee got to the red ink. Despite increases over 1955, production of steel, coal, cement and timber in 1956 did not reach the goals set by the Sixth Five Year Plan adopted a year ago. In addition, scowled the Committee, "the plans for housing have been only partly fulfilled," which was a soft way of saying that Russia's desperate housing situation is in terrible shape...
...writers. We've noted how successfully the system works at other institutions. We've answered objections, pointing out that it is really fairer to let each student choose his preferred way to write an exam than it is to penalize slow pen-pushers by prescribing blue books and ink only. We've even written notes to graders, suggesting that they might form an interested pressure group...
...junior auxiliary in the high school. States' rights stickers began to turn up everywhere. White students appeared in class with Confederate flags sewn on their sweaters. They cried ''Nigger bitches'' and "Dirty nigger whore" at the Negro coeds. They threw eggs and stones, poured ink over the Negroes' books and into their lockers. Whenever their enthusiasm failed, members of the White Citizens' Council were ready to keep the trouble brewing...
...causes the rod to act as a "light pipe." Dr. Kapany conceived the idea of bunching thousands of microscopic glass rods, each of which would transmit a single point of light. The bundle of points of light should form an image in much the same way the pattern of ink dots in a newspaper illustration forms a picture...