Word: mucking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second speech at Harvard came at the end of '64 when Malcolm X spoke on a panel with Martin L. Kilson and James Q. Wilson. "This was his muck-raker phase when he had just broken with the Black Muslims and was critical of everyone. Three months later, after another trip to Africa, Malcolm X returned to the Law School Forum to give a very introspective, self-critical speech...
...enemies, among them that ingenious hunchback, Alexander Pope, whose ferociously witty verses proclaimed that Lady Mary was greedy, stingy, adulterous, Lesbian, syphilitic-and on top of that she wore a dirty smock. His attacks were sickeningly effective. In her 40s Lady Mary faced a painful prospect: her name was muck, her marriage a byword, her looks a fading memory. In moving lines she said farewell to the love she never found...
...life, often falling continuously for several days. Fishing becomes sporadic, and all but indoor workers are forced to sit and do little but watch the steady downpour turn the sand and dirt roads into rivers of mud which settle in low spots and are churned into black muck by traffic...
...Eichmann demonstrated the banality of evil, Keitel proved its myopia. Actually, the chief of Hitler's high command was neither a Prussian nor a very convincing "war criminal." Keitel was a frustrated farmer who, on his rare wartime leaves, loved nothing more than to muck about his Brunswick estate of Helmscherode, buying new farm implements or hunting roebuck and wild boar. Almost coincidentally, he signed his name to Hitler's orders decreeing the deaths of millions. As another Nazi general wrote of Keitel later, "He was certainly not wicked au fond, as one occasionally reads...
Winkle, dinkle, muckle, muck. Linger longly, Lulu, Lou. Yippee, yoohoo, heehaw, jigsaw. Stringle, strangle, jingle jangle, mourning we'll come following through. Beat Yale...