Word: nag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Registering a variety of unregal emotions, members of Britain's royal family-the Duke of Gloucester, Prince Philip, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen Mother and the Princess Royal-lined the rails at Epsom Downs like the noble nag lovers in My Fair Lady's Act I Ascot Gavotte, watched...
...sixth grade they devote almost equal time to school (27½ hours a week) and televiewing (26 hours a week). Other findings: ¶ Offered a choice, 51% of the children would prefer a sound spanking to a parental blackout of their favorite program. ¶ Parents must threaten or nag 43% of the youngsters to wrench them from TV at mealtimes, 46% at bedtime...
Fury's success is due less to the horse sense it propounds than the exciting horseflesh it displays. No ordinary nag, Fury (real name: Beauty) is one of the best-trained, best-paid horses in Hollywood, where his competition is keen. He lives quietly on a posh ranch in Van Nuys, Calif., works only four months a year and has brought Owner Ralph McCutcheon about $500,000 in eight years. His Fury fee: $1,500 a show. A saddlebred, eleven-year-old stallion standing 15 lands high, Fury has borne some of Hollywood's most famous bodies...
...catch is that the caliber of the goods is so low-the cement takes twice as long as it should to harden-that even Cambodia's impoverished citizens shun them. Says one Cambodian government spokesman: "I have heard about gift horses, but this one is really an old nag." Last year's U.S. aid to Cambodia: $35 million -part of it for a modern highway and construction of a deep-water port on the Gulf of Thailand...
...ploy, but the present administration has also been embarrassed by the generosity of King Saud of Arabia. One aide accepted an automobile from the monarch, and there are many daggers, watches and other golden mementos waiting to be distributed. In addition, Senator Wayne Morse has been unkind enough to nag the President about gifts of livestock and a tractor for his Gettysburg homestead...