Word: poppin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watch that you don't take it off the field with you," says Sam. "You get guys who say, 'Oh, you're a big football player. Well, I don't think you're so tough.' You feel like poppin' them...
Your Harry Truman cover story is superb. And Mark Twain would have loved those lines about Harry Truman wanting to be buried in a mulberry coffin so he could "go through hell crackin' and poppin'." Two Missouri boys-Mark Twain and Harry Truman. Boys to be proud...
Steadfast Bastard. Thus last week did Harry S. Truman, the snappin', cracklin', poppin' man from Missouri (TIME, Aug. 13), bring the 1956 Democratic Convention to life by twisting all the previous political equations. With Truman's twist, many Democrats were torn, e.g., Truman Biographer Jonathan Daniels of North Carolina, asked by Harry to support Harriman, replied mournfully: "I feel like a bastard at the family reunion. After you announced that you wouldn't run in 1952, you told me to go out and get Adlai Stevenson to run. Stevenson is still running...