Word: poned
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...dinning a new language into the U.S. ear. It is something like English, but it has a grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of its own. It grows out of a rich compost of dialects heard at Lindy's and the Stork Club, in the hominy-grits-and-corn-pone belt and around Hollywood and Vine. It is calculatedly lowbrow: and out of the mouths of M.C.s, comedians, interviewers, children's hosts, singers and announcers, it has become a powerful influence on American speech. Critic Clifton Fadiman calls it Televenglish...
...Eagle defense, goalie Al Pitts, and sometimes the posts of the cage defended well, and B.C. managed to post pone the inevitable until the last period, holding the Crimson 1-1 in the first and then at 2-2 after the second stanza...
...came to your house to spend a day or tew . . . From the phonograph at a dime store record counter another voice in another version lilted with a bouncy, corn pone accompaniment: If He came unexpected, I wonder whut...
...drive the nation's golf scores down from the low 705 to the low 60s. (Improved equipment-notably the steel shaft and the larger ball, and such gadgets as the power mower and the fairway sprinkler systems-helped.) Sam Snead, with his own particular style and corn-pone personality, was something new in combat golf. For years the game had been dominated by English styles. With the great American hitters-including Snead-golf had got out of its Oxford bags...
...home. Soon afterward, and without warning, a warehouse was built next door, thus devaluating the property. "Before a building is to be out up, people in the neighborhood must be informed by law, so they can appeal to the City Council. But they are not notified," he claims. Pone speaks of municipal collusion and bribery, but has yet no documented proof to back his charges...