Word: peg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fish. At the top of a first-rate cast, which included Walter Slezak, Martyn Green and Stubby Kaye, was 37-year-old Mickey Rooney, who somehow managed to keep ubiquitous Mickey Rooney out of the act and gave a remarkably apt performance as the wooden boy with the tent-peg nose...
...babnik, which means flatterer. She once declared that he was one of only two hand-kissing, courtly gentlemen in Moscow (the other: Lavrenty Beria). They have four sons (another was killed in World War II): two are in the air force, a third is reportedly a wild-living, peg-trousered boidevardier in Gorky Street's "jet set." Mikoyan's brother Artem, an air force general, is famous in his own right as co-designer of the MIG -the "MI" stands for Mikoyan, the "G" for Co-Designer Gurevich...
...various expeditions, soon learned to talk, live, love like an Eskimo. In 1912 Freuchen and his friend Knud Rasmussen crossed the north Greenland icecap. Childlike in his daring, steel-girded in his endurance, he once (1923) hammered off the frozen toes of his left foot, hopped actively on a peg leg after a subsequent amputation. With his face also frozen, Freuchen grew a full red beard, only shaved briefly to be less recognizable when he joined the wartime resistance in Nazi-held Denmark. In 1945 he settled in Manhattan as U.N. correspondent for Copenhagen's Politiken...
...value, thus encouraging imports and making exporters' competition for world markets more difficult. The country's money managers are worried that trade may freeze in this pattern. Yet the alternatives are scarcely inviting. Discouraging foreign investment might touch off a recession. If Canada tried to peg its dollar at a lower level, it would redouble the incentive of foreign capital to invest. And it is questionable whether Canadian taxpayers would willingly finance a costly stabilization plan certain to cause higher prices at home...
...wars as a three-year center at Notre Dame, 38-year-old Footballer Brock heads the university men's physical education department and doubles as a line coach. "At first these fellows think it's all for the birds," admits Brock, "but dancing pulls them down a peg. They learn that a fast square dance is work. There are maneuvers and muscles used in Arkansas Traveler that you won't use doing a hand-off or making a tackle...