Word: piker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...take over the business of running the paper, as soon as the last murmurs of the festival fade away. The people who made the ceremonies possible--Andrew P. Corty '74, the hundredth anniversary czar Pat Sorrento, the shop foreman whose patience with dilatory copy makes Job seem a piker; Miss Eunice Ficket, the Business Board's conscience, soul and spirit, who has kept the details running; and those whose names have been forgotten--all will pick up the pattern of their lives after they recover from the partying. They have done well...
...different parties, different generations and different regions, but they have two important things in common. Each is almost universally regarded as a certain loser in his party's New Hampshire presidential primary, and each has the panting support of William Loeb's Manchester Union Leader. Never a piker in his predictions, Publisher Loeb even says that he thinks Yorty will win the Democratic primary...