Word: mugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Australian tennis zealots turn out by the thousands, even for minor tournaments. And they would no more think of repressing their natural partisanship than a crowd of U.S. baseball fans. A visiting American can expect to have his court errors lustily cheered, can count on cries of "Lout!" and "Mug!" if he shows temper or disgruntlement...
...boisterous group of townies, looking for some New Year's Eve fun, attempted to mug two sophomores in the Harvard Square MTA station late Thursday night...
...Pushkin Square, Rear Admiral Leslie C. Stevens, U.S. naval attache in Moscow, sat over a mug of strong, sweet Russian beer. Before very long he was joined by "a little black-browed man with no collar and a very dirty shirt." His companion turned out to be a typesetter on Pravda, who, after assuring himself that Stevens was not an MVD agent, whispered: "Don't worry about propaganda against your country. We Russians do not believe it. Whenever you read such things, it is a sure sign the Russian people . . . think otherwise...
...girl (Barbara Bates, Jody Lawrence, Peggy Ryan). This is the sort of picture in which the characters have such names as Moby Dickerson and Gay Knight. All Ashore is at its brightest when it gives sawed-off Mickey Rooney a chance to hoof, sing, do assorted pratfalls and mug his way amusingly through a saloon sequence in which he is fed a Mickey Finn, a dream sequence in which he imagines he is a lionhearted medieval knight...
...into the door and must have realized what it was about and he tried to get out. He almost got out.' He said, 'It's a lucky thing I was there. If I wasn't there, he would have got away. I grabbed him and mugged him . . . and he started to fight and he tried to break the mug, and that's when he scratched me. But he didn't get away...