Word: panning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guess anybody who wears a uniform or who carries a pen and pad his whole professional life is a Peter Pan by trade: we want to keep our toys and adventures. It makes for an understanding relationship...
These amusements are complicated by the fact that the native tongue of the players is not English but Doggese, a kind of revisionist lingo in which words have arbitrarily assigned meanings. When someone says "Sun-dock-trog-pan-slack," he is counting from one to five...
BARC certainly whizzes through its first tongue-teasing test, but dock, trog, pan and slack are still to come. As for Stoppard, this time it is hard to say whether he preys on words or words prey...
...Frying Pan...
...soaring price (once $400 per oz. seemed beyond belief) has sent squadrons of amateur hunters backpacking into the hills to pan for gold. Some of the great old names-virtual ghost towns since the price was pegged at $35 per oz. in 1934-are bustling with new business. Cripple Creek in Colorado, Sierra City in California and Virginia City in Nevada, home of the Comstock Lode, are opening or planning to reopen mines, reworking old tailings with fancy new equipment, moving tons of rock to get at ore seams that for years were thought uneconomical to mine...