Word: mets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thirteen new bachelors were needed to participate in the annual race, and that someone in Dogpatch who could read saw in a newspaper that Harvard was awarding 2000 bachelors' degrees. Moonbeam McSwine, one of the more picturesque local characters, was dispatched to Cambridge to recruit the necessary bachelors. She met with surprisingly little resistance...
...live your life, and you like him for it--the Jimmy Dean sort of guy. And when you want to rebel you grow a beard, wear levis and cowboy boots, or smoke a pipe. But is this life? If one of these fellows with their picture-book notions ever met life face-to-face it would blow up his sand castle but good. They're even afraid of cracks in the sidewalk." He pulled out a cigarette, and someone had a lighter...
Government 119 has resulted from several years of joint scholarship by the Rudolphs. They met in graduate school in 1951, when Lloyd was a tutor and Sue had just graduated from Sarah Lawrence. "We met over Aristotle," said Sue. "I needed some wise advice for a paper. Lloyd has been giving me wise advice ever since. We lived through each other's theses and have collaborated on four articles...
...wonderful gentleman.'' said Kim Novak, her hazel eyes wide and dreamy. "A real good-will ambassador for his country. He likes hamburgers and so do I." Zsa Zsa Gabor swooningly agreed: "One of the finest men I've ever met...
...Then he met Kim, and they were together for big dates and small. Could it be love? "One never knows," said Kim. But all the publicity brought out an embarrassing fact: back home, Ramfis has a wife named Octavia ("Tan Tan") and six children. Frankly surprised, Kim said she had planned to send the car back anyway. "There's not even room in my carport," said she. Zsa Zsa was gladly hanging on to both her presents. At Leavenworth, the Army announced that Ramfis, who last week had his adenoids removed, had been completing his assignments by mail...