Word: peg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arthur, Texas. A scrawny youngster, she rebelled against femininity; women were "sissies who wore girdles, bras and that junk." Instead of wasting time with dolls, Mildred Ella Didrikson exercised on a backyard weight-lifting machine built of broomsticks and her mother's flatirons. She beat boys at mumblety-peg, whizzed past them in foot races and razzle-dazzled them in basketball. Still in her teens, she burst into the headlines as the hit of the 1932 Olympic Games, winning the javelin throw and the 80-meter hurdles. She disdained lipstick, plastered her hair back, talked out of the side...
...Peg in the Heel. A few weeks after Yeo-Thomas was flown back to England, the Gestapo threw a force of 32,000 agents into Paris, concentrated on the task of breaking the Resistance. Yeo-Thomas was rushed back to France. The Gestapo found out he was there. For eight wild weeks "The White Rabbit" (as he was known to his home office) scuttled about France from rendezvous to rendezvous, with the German police breathing down his neck...
Once the Gestapo got advance word of a rendezvous, and lay in wait for him, but Yeo-Thomas spotted a police car in the neighborhood, and shied away. Several times a day he changed his hat, his scarf, or put a peg in his heel to alter his manner of walking. Yeo-Thomas and his associates managed to keep the Resistance from collapse...
...chairman of Citizens for Eisenhower. Williams succeeded Paul Hoffman as head of the Committee for Economic Development and served as chairman of Washington's state Republican committee. Last month, after chatting with Ike about a possible Cabinet job, Williams confessed that he thought of himself as a square peg in a round hole in Treasury, but a "round peg in a round hole" in Commerce...
...Round Peg. Ike kept his business routine to a minimum. For two hours each morning, he went over the mail and dictated answers to his secretary, Mrs. Ann Whitman. After that, his two aides, Appointments Secretary Thomas Stephens and Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, briefed him on the morning news and the day's dilemmas. Confronted by a problem, Ike would think it over for a moment, his forefinger and thumb playing with the cap on his front tooth. Then he would spring from his chair, pace the floor and announce his decision in a quick sentence...