Word: pooped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whether armadillos are good to eat (they are). No one catches H. Mewhinney with his patter down. When one fan insisted that bookkeeper was the only English word with three double letters, Mewhinney gave him at least three more: "Poo-peepee (a seaman who is peeped at from a poop deck), raccoonnookkeeper (the custodian of a coon hollow) and barroom-moodduller (one who dulls the jovial mood in a barroom)." When another reader asked him to explain the Truman Doctrine in one-syllable words, Mewhinney obliged-in 285 one-syllable words...
...this poop backfired badly last Saturday. Dartmouth was helpless against a Brown team to which it lost...
Beacon Lights. Two hours before midnight on Oct. 11, Columbus saw from the poop of his Santa Maria a far-off light waxing & waning in the dark. Searching for an explanation, Berrill points out that the light could not have come from San Salvador. That island was too far off (about 50 miles) when Columbus sang out. Nor could it have come from a native canoe. Berrill thinks it came from a colony of 1-2 in. sea worms which live among the rocky reefs of the Bahamas and shed their eggs near the sea's surface with...