Word: pow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months, Bogota (pop. 450,000) had been sprucing up, and by this week it was as ready as it ever would be for the opening next Tuesday of the Ninth Conference of American States, the first full-dress Pan American pow-wow in ten years...
...previous months noticed the difference right away--where there had been naught there was plenty: in attendees at classes, extra-curricular activitiers, Widener users. And what was more, the influx--unless, as TIME claimed, it was the co-ordination with spring that did it--put life and love and pow! into all and sundry...
Later, when a cowpoke quaffed a "prairie pickup" ("straight formaldehyde with a black widder spider ridin' the olive"), his crepe whiskers fell off. Ad-libbed Actor Welles: "Mighty pow'ful stuff, that likker. Burns the whiskers right off'n a man's face...
Died. Ebert K. Burlew, 59, longtime administrative assistant to terrible-tempered Harold L. Ickes and backstage pow er in the Secretary of the Interior's office; of coronary thrombosis; in Miami...
...their creator an estimated $60,000 a year. He bought an 18-room house, built along the lines of a moderate-sized hotel, on St. Louis' private, exclusive Portland Place, where he still lives. For a time, the Bungles formula seemed surefire: there was a good deal of POW, SOCK and WHAM to liven the adventures of shrewish Josephine and gullible George, whose chief vice was signing papers before he read them. But the Bungles' incessant quarreling, which would have exhausted any real life couple, eventually got too painful for the readers. The strip's newspaper clients...