Word: peg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alley's Creative Clothes "The House of Frantic Styles"offered two of its newest and slickest numbers:at $14.95, a knee-length, double-breasted gabardine "Bop Cardigan," with four patch-pockets and no lapels; at $8.95, a pair of "highrise, drop-loop, saddle-stitch, tricky-pocket peg pants...
...arrogant preelection remark in St. Louis that any farmer or laborer who voted Republican should have his head examined. The angry Lucas was sure the crack had hurt him, that Illinois voters had decided among other considerations that it was time to take Harry Truman down a peg by rejecting Scott Lucas...
...turned over again and tried to squeeze under what was apparently a blanket. There was something wrong with that last idea. Celebrate the imminence of the Princeton game. Of course; celebrate was the square peg. Deplore, bemoan, he thought, bewail but do not celebrate...
There was more noise made about this one than about almost any film since "Samson and Delilah." This is the one billboards and match covers have been booming as "A most unusual motion picture," a statement I won't dispute. But when the ads go on to peg it as a certain successor to "The Lost Weekend" in the Oscar department, then I must beg to differ...
...help Peg and other new teachers who can't avoid feeling a little lost, the council had examined what was being done about just such problems in some 30 U.S. communities. The result: a list of tested practices that have kept many potentially first-rate teachers from being scared out of their jobs before they had a chance to prove themselves...