Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know baseball best turned a collective cold shoulder on two of the fans' perennial favorites: Boston's Ted Williams (batting .298 at week's end) and New York's Yogi Berra (.217). New faces popped up everywhere in the lineups. Only one man was everybody's choice: St. Louis' Stan ("The Man") Musial was a unanimous pick (discounting a lone myopic dissenter) for National League first baseman...
From bitter experience, all broadcasters know that a routine political speech by a routine politician has a low-low rating in listenership. What is worse, the wind from a campaigning politico is often strong enough to blow his audience right over to a more entertaining station for the rest of the evening. Since political time is bought on a local, one-time basis, the stations get top dollar for each broadcast, but are still increasingly reluctant to sell time to such gnashing bores...
...Shut," by John Alden), gives advice on how to play golf ("The grip should be about the same as one would use clutching a dead trout"), and quotes some woman-meets-native dialogue from the National Osographic: "Evelyn stepped forward and asked in Swahili, 'What I want to know, and I want you to give me a straight answer to, is-I mean-I want to know if you really got cannibals up this way. I mean I heard the rumble. I know the story...
Trans Continental management denied any complicity in the selling, said it did not even know about it. One question the SEC may want answered as it investigates: Where did the high-pressure operators get their hands on a large enough chunk of stock to peddle...
...advertised brands. In between ranges the vast middle ground of shoppers, fair game for the motivational researchers, who take dead aim with all the analytical gimmicks under the supermarket sun. They claim, for instance, that the undecided mass of supermarket shoppers -they call them "emotionally insecure"-really do not know what they want when they enter a store and often are not sure what they have bought right up to the cash registers. In tests, researchers paid for housewives' purchases, led them to another market and asked them to shop again for the week's groceries. There...