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Word: moseys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college campuses, most boxing coaches seemed determined to turn fistfighting into a proper form of fun and games. They taught all their young gentlemen to spar like featherweights. Such old-timers as Navy's Spike Webb (TIME, Aug. 2), Princeton's Spider Kelly and Yale's Mosey King turned even their heavyweights into Fancy Dans. It was all very civilized-and just a little too light-foot to please the crowds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing Safe & Sane | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...high-quality alloys. Son of a Georgia C.P.A., Hunter took over his father's accounting firm in 1928, later merged it with Haskins & Sells of Manhattan, auditors for Crucible. In his spare time ("I really haven't any"), Hunter likes to golf (around 100) and to "mosey around" his six-acre Sewickley, Pa. estate. He replaces William P. Snyder Jr., who will continue as a member of Crucible's executive committee and board of directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, may 31, 1954 | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

Captain Fisby (John Forsythe) is sent to the village of Tobiki with orders to teach the natives democracy and to build them a pentagon-shaped schoolhouse. He brilliantly bungles his assignment: rather than march them glumly in formation toward their desired goal, he lets them mosey to it down their own primrose path. They wax prosperous selling sweet-potato brandy to the U.S. armed forces; they grow affectionate when allowed to build a teahouse instead of a school. There is not only joy in Tobiki, but, at the final curtain, notable satisfaction in Washington. A genial satire, the play blueprints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 26, 1953 | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...talked for 4½ hours. In mid-afternoon Shivers came out smiling, said he was going to mosey around and might look at Abe Lincoln's tomb while Stevenson thought the matter over. (He never did visit the tomb, instead called at the office of a Texas insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Trouble with Texas | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

...Bulldogs who prefer the more direct approach, boxing coach "Mosey" King-31 years at New Haven-again directs flits workouts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judo Class Eliminates Eli After Dark Fears | 4/11/1952 | See Source »

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