Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of words and phrases, among them: bat (applied to a woman); nuts (except when meaning crazy); razzberry (the sound); torn cat (applied to a man). Also banned: jokes about traveling salesmen and farmers' daughters; suicide or divorce as an answer to human problems; fortunetelling, astrology, phrenology, palm-reading and numerology, if shown in a way that might "foster superstition or excite interest or belief...
Father Feeney, an elderly man with fleshy jowls and stringy gray hair, took the platform. His voice is high-pitched and has a tendency toward lisping, which he makes up for by an outraged tone of delivery and much smashing of fist into palm...
...favorite café, expecting a joyful greeting. The first man to see him shuddered, sputtered and sagged into a chair. An old friend at the other side of the barroom hastily stamped out a cigarette and reverently removed his hat. Madame Labbaye, the patronne, peered from behind a potted palm. "What is wrong?" cried Roger. "Have I lost a child?" Roger couldn't make out the woman's excited answer...
...perhaps the first necessity of a good novel is not absolutely fatal to The President's Lady. "Old Hickory's" life was packed with enough variety to have roused the envy of Anthony Adverse. He knew the frontier and the arts of Indian fighting like the palm of his hand. He loved a wild financial gamble, but he could change overnight into a sober storekeeper and patient farmer. A capable lawyer and a judge, he pored for hours over classic volumes on military strategy, kept a string of race horses, fought pistol duels for Rachel's honor...
...Defense manufacturers, sorely pressed for machine tools, last week struck a bonanza. Representatives of 493 companies hustled to a huge (115 acres) plant in Marietta, Ga., which Lockheed is now clearing out to make room for planemaking. There they found more than $400 million in machine tools-everything from palm-sized micrometers to 573-ton hydraulic presses. The U.S. Air Force had mothballed the tools five years ago, and has been slowly leasing them out. But last week the Air Force decided to rent everything in the place, at week's end had 2,425 major tools ready...