Word: mooched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pauper Profit. In Detroit, arrested after he tried to mooch a nickel from a passerby, Panhandler Genter Adams turned over $166 in cash and a bankbook with a $5,728 balance to cops for safekeeping, chose a 90-day jail term instead of a $100 fine, explained: "I can't afford to take all that money out of the bank with the interest rates so high...
...Sauvie Island outbreak was stopped by putting almost a pound of antibiotics in every ton of turkey feed. But where the turkeys get the virus remained a mystery. The Columbia River's wild ducks were suspected because they mooch free meals in the turkey runs. But Dr. Donald Mason (on loan to Oregon from the U.S. Public Health Service) admitted: "We may never know whether the ducks gave the disease to the turkeys, or vice versa...