Word: mugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tariff, or on any other political issue, that was for Webster out of the question. Good political cartoons have to be simple, and the only sure way to be simple, without also being vapid, is to be very firm in your convictions. Webster calls himself a Mugwump, but the mug and wump usually lean over the conservative side of the fence, as is perhaps natural in a man who spent his most formative years, very happily, in much the sort of pre-industrial American background which had produced his gods, Lincoln and Mark Twain...
Commander Norman ("Bus") Miller commanded the Liberator squadron known as "Miller's Reluctant Raiders." His own patched, scarred bomber, decorated with a painting of a chamber pot and named "Thunder Mug," is covered with the record of his missions...
...deep and understandable phobia: glass. It had felt the blast of high explosives before. Blast would, as it did, strip the clothing off a woman near a factory window, leave the factory and its machines virtually undamaged. It would, as it did, suck the beer out of a mug in a man's hand, leave the mug, the man and his hand unhurt. It would also kill without leaving a visible wound...
...legal laddies with their constipated mentalities, asinine subtleties and refinements are baffling themselves with "What about Himmler, who may never have shot or beaten to death a Jew, personally?" What happens to a mug participating in a conspiracy which results in an innocent death...
Nobody wished Müller harm. Word had been passed that he was to be left to bumble. But last week there was a slip: Müller was shot down. As a British sergeant-pilot put it, "now some mug has pranged...