Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Using their specially made keys, the seven robbers made their way through five doors to the second-floor vault, where five Brink's men were busy counting the day's cash. Confronted with seven short-nosed pistols, the Brink's men surrendered without a fight. After tying...
Christmas brings out the pixie in record companies, or at least it encourages them to bring out their pixie singers. Time was when things were sweet and sentimental-as when homesick G.I.s made a nice, solid hit of Irving Berlin's White Christmas-but that mood was dimmed in...
This blunder nosed out the Pittsburgh-West Virginia play, where an extra point was kicked when there were no goalposts.
A View from Partridge Sir: In your Nov. 14 Cinema review of The View from Pompey's Head I note the use of the word "peckerhead." I have my own definition of this word-will you kindly provide me with yours? PERRY W. PARKER Major, U.S.A.F. (ret.) Palmdale, Calif...
For such a well-mannered magazine as the Saturday Review of Literature, the experience was a shock - but the shock was not limited to the magazine. In 1936 a scrappy, pug-nosed man from Utah took over as editor. His name, Bernard DeVoto, soon became a synonym for the atrabilious...