Word: pecked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week as the Germans marched on Paris, Paul Archinard, NBC's correspondent, sat down at a typewriter in his newly decorated apartment (also NBC Paris office), began to peck out his next scheduled broadcast. Suddenly an air-raid siren screamed, and Archinard, together with his two girl helpers, headed out of the apartment at the double quick. They were huddled in a hallway when several Nazi bombs whammed down upon adjoining buildings, exploded with a crash that blasted doors and windows out of Archinard's apartment, ruined 10,000 francs worth of fresh paint and plaster. White...
...leading editorial last week, the ultrarespectable American Journal of Surgery ran an "enthusiastic" discussion of "Dog Surgery and Self Development" by Drs. Clyde Merideth Jr. and Thomas Peck Butcher of Emporia, Kans. Small-town surgeons, said they, with little chance to show their versatility, can keep in trim by practicing on dogs. "Skill . . . had much better be developed at the expense of the dog than at the expense of the patient...
...Varsity golf team registered its second straight victory yesterday afternoon by defeating Boston University 5 1/2 to 3 1/2 on the tricky Oakley Country Club layout. Captain Ace Cordingley led the six-man Crimson squad by touring Oakley in 72, trouncing his opponent, Peck, 9-8, and teaming with Bob Graves to win the best ball point in the first foursome. Graves scored a 2 up individual win over Danahy of Boston University...
Odds and ends: (1) Get a load of the Elder-bloom Chorus, a hungry pack of female septuagenarians who truck, peck, and shag. (2) The name of the picture is "It All Came True." (3) It is very likely that the Metropolitan Theatre expected "The Grapes of Wrath" to run two weeks, and consequently was caught up a tree when it was good for only one. (4) Sheridan is gowned throughout like an expectant mother...
Strong for verisimilitude, Joanne interviewed the local judge to learn how judges talk, the local grocer to learn the idiom of grocers. By autumn of 1939 she had put all the pieces of paper together, laboriously typed out (by hunt and peck) their 15,000 words...