Word: irking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these pledges are still unfulfilled, and, in a last-minute drive to catch up with wayward pledge-makers, the Council has offered an easy out--contributions from University coupon books. Lack of ready cash is no longer an adequate plea. The Council's Service Fund relieves everyone from the irk-some chore of wallet-reaching or door-slamming before an endless chain of charity canvassers; it seems only just that everyone should have a share in making this relief a reality...
Arnold Sigurd Kirkeby (rhymes with irk-a-bee), 44, breakfasted early at Manhattan's tony Hampshire House, which he owns. After breakfast he slowly smoked his way through two fat, black Rey Del Mundo cigars. Then he was ready for battle...
...Navy yard worker I find situations that, at times, irk me but a little thinking on the subject usually eases my conscience and clarifies the case at hand. ... If the riveters are on board waiting for the carpenters, the carpenters are on board, etc., then the maximum effort can be delivered at an instant's notice, whereas if each had to be located somewhere else, their-tools brought to the ship, and time lost in getting ready for work it would still require at least four other men to keep one working...
...popularizing the phrase, "fifth column," Martin Dies has earned himself an unenviable paragraph in H. L. Mencken, and a good many inches in the newspapers. His plea yesterday for an appropriation to continue his carte blanche investigations will irk neither the rouges nor the noirs so much as it will upset the sincere democrats in this country. If there is any one man today who symptomizes the tendency in a crisis period towards the rise of a vigilante spirit of hysteria, it is the Honorable Gentleman from Texas...