Word: nag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while I was on the rail, Watching Deitsch (7-2), Tortenson (4-I), and Edge (S-2) working the course, my friend Terror Mike was casing this McKinley nag. Mike says she took the High Jump back in Sheboygan, and that she says she's very limber. But Mike says to me, "Clocker," he says, "Who ever saw a doll who could race...
...cleverness still runs away with him occasionally, and kicks up such a dust that most bystanders can't make out what he's up to; but he is learning to keep his nag under control. Even in his irresponsible heyday candid friends sometimes said of him that his brilliance was self-defeating; his verse was lucid in flashes but never memorable. Said one critic: "His words lie dead on the page." But in his latest book he shows signs of attaining that memorable magic that only the best poets have...
Brinton's article entitled "Should the British Nag Us?", decries Russell's use of "half-truths." Russell "just does not seem to have a grasp of reality" on the matters of Korea, American attitudes toward the British Labor government, and what Britons and Americans have invented, stated Brinton...
...wholly uninspiring arrangement of lilac smudges by Cape Cod Abstractionist Karl Knaths, took first prize. It looked rather like a flat but tasteful Victorian sampler, translated into the smeary medium of oils. California's Rico Lebrun came in second with Centurion's Horse, a chalky, Picassoid nag, understandably hanging its head in a canvas as dark and narrow as a hall closet...
...council social workers used the slow approach. They began by loafing near gang hangouts, gradually drawing the boys into conversation, playing the jukebox with them, letting them cadge occasional cigarettes. As distrust faded, the council men identified themselves, proved that they were not cops and not out to nag, report the gang members or break their gangs. On the contrary, they were available for advice, an occasional two-bit loan, or help in arranging for the use of a gym or a place to hold a dance...