Word: larded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...variety or any other of life's spices, the computer solemnly accepted the facts that a man must have certain minimum quantities of protein, calcium, iron, phosphorus and five vitamins. Then its nerve cells went to work, concluded that only four foods are needed to sustain life: lard, beef liver, orange juice and soybean meal...
...Lard. But this is the year of the defense. The mighty Cleveland Browns are as good at stopping touchdowns as making them. Even with its league-leading offense, the champion Baltimore Colts have wallowed badly at times this season because its faltering defense failed to back up the N.F.L.'s most formidable tackle: Gene ("Big Daddy") Lipscomb (6 ft. 6 in., 288 Ibs.), who riffles with heavy hands through enemy backs ("I keep the one with the ball"). Last week, once again tackling hard and low, the Colts hit the San Francisco Forty-Niners so hard that they allowed...
...offense, pro fans are realizing what the experts have known all along: the defense epitomizes the raw strength and subtle scheming that lies at the heart of football. Says one pro coach: "In college football, all you really need for a defense is a few big tubs of lard in the line. They can't move, and they can't be moved. In pro football, size isn't enough; everybody has it. Defense becomes a game of chess...
Dors & Drawers. From Aberdeen to Bath, boys cracked jokes that the Opies trace to Queen Anne's day. Girls cured warts by rubbing them with lard and then burying the lard (a method described by Francis Bacon). They performed a levitation stunt that once fascinated Samuel Pepys. They still believe that reciting the Lord's Prayer backwards makes the Devil appear, and like the Elizabethans, seldom dare...
...worked up in 53 years at the local shoemaking plant from odd-job boy to vice-president, built a fortresslike house on the right bank of the Lackawaxen River (one small bridge later named after Lyman). Poorer kids ate butter, but the Lemnitzer boys got their bread dry or lard smeared. They dutifully did their chores (dishwashing, lawn mowing), earned their spending money at part-time jobs. Lyman clerked at Mike Bergstein's Main Street store, developed an Army-useful talent for shortening pants...