Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though they sometimes snorted in the process, almost all these people, and a hundred million more, read the headlines and eyed the newsreels with a sense of gratitude. It was comforting to know that the rest of the news, most of it fairly grim and overpowering, was happening to someone else...
...ball in his honor, the President chatted with the guests (who paid $10 a head), but declined to test the dance floor. "I'm a Baptist, you know," Harry Truman explained, "but not a lightfoot one, so I didn't learn to dance." Forty minutes later, the President was ready to leave; the next day would be a big one. ". . . Come out to the stadium tomorrow," Baptist Truman suggested, "and I'll tell you something good for your souls...
Gordon Clapp, quiet, competent 43-year-old boss of the Government's $800 million public-power empire had something to say, all right. He had never been asked to serve in an Army job, did not even know he had been considered for one, and would not be interested if he were; TVA duties take up all of his time. Next day, the Army, realizing it had been guilty of irresponsible character assassination, beat a hasty retreat. "The Army," said its new Secretary, Gordon Gray, "has never investigated Mr. Gordon R. Clapp and has absolutely no derogatory information about...
Williams has a reason for all this, of course. His field is merphogenesis--the development of different kinds of animals. If he can discover what makes pupas grow, he will know what makes humans grow...
...great year next season," this character began. "If Lowenstein can put on twenty pounds this summer, and if Moffie doesn't break a leg, our backs ought to be among the snapplest in the East, but of course with Godin out of the picture, I don't know where Stuffy will find another real stopper on the firing line. As for Bolles, of course, we don't need to worry--Jaakko has some very fine young freshmen coming up, you know...