Word: podunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What is more, Cannon can also block with power, is at his best under pressure: "Man, I don't like to get beat." Summed up L.S.U.'s Tackle Bo Strange: "When you need it, that animal is there. Cannon won't get 100 touchdowns against Podunk. But he'll get the big one against someone like Ole Miss...
...admissions policy of the college will, hopefully, continue to find room for the "diamond in the rough," the intelligent applicant who at East Podunk High has not been given the academic advantages of Exeter or Bronx Science. Presumably these students benefit from attending Harvard and the diverse background they contribute is valuable for undergraduate education...
...labor and management to get together and declare a truce on higher wages and prices until this thing is over." The Government can be of some help, though such highly publicized recession cures as a speedup in public works are overstated benefits. "A new post office in Podunk doesn't do much for the skilled man who is unemployed in Detroit." More important, said McDonnell, who once argued that the best way to halt inflation in the U.S. economy was to increase taxes on incomes below $5,000, is a program of "sensible tax reforms." McDonnell wants temporary...
...conceivable that B grades indicate greater academic accomplishment here than at Podunk U? Does not a man's standing in the upper half of his class at Harvard, or Yale, or the University of Chicago involve at least a bit more prestige, value, or what you will than a similar rating at Milliville State Teachers College and Athletic Association...
...gallant troopers fought them off with bayonets, rifle butts, knives, even fists and feet. The Reds seemed to have no taste for this sort of combat and retreated across the Naktong with heavy casualties, but they came back to fight again near Waegwan (called "Wigwam," "Waukeegan," or "Podunk" by G.I.s), twelve miles northwest of Taegu. Twice the G.I.s were driven from the top of Hill 303 made infamous by the war's worst atrocity (see War Crimes), but they scrambled back up. As Gay's men dug in on top of Hill 303 for the third time...