Word: pram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found in Daniel Boone's Echo, by William 0. Steele; poetry in Katherine Love's anthology, A Little Laughter; magic in Mary Norton's Bed-Knob and Broomstick; hobbies in Royal Wills's Tree Houses. The range is being pushed farther and farther from pram to prom, from pre-reading do-it-yourselfers (with buttons and Zippers fixed to the pages) to a growing number of teen-age novels (Girl Trouble, etc.) that compete with adult books...
...outboards. Carlisle tagged its 17-ft. Aqua-Queen cruiser with new compact Fageol VIP 35-h.p. engine at $1,995. Ulrichsen priced its 21-ft. Sea Skiff with twin 60-h.p. Chris Craft engines at $2,895. For do-it-yourselfers, there were kits ranging from an 8-ft. pram at $52 to a 23-ft. cabin cruiser for $879, about half what each would cost assembled...
...early in May when Ellen Moore, 22, a pretty young housewife, headed for the Child Welfare Clinic in the bleak Northumberland mining town of Wallsend. Two months pregnant, she had her 16-month-old firstborn, Paul, in his pram. As a truck carrying a load of tree trunks took a nearby corner, one of the lashings parted. A soft, log struck Mrs. Moore a glancing blow on the head, and she fell unconscious...
...halitosis were worked out [as a] way of scaring the public. Then some bright spark had suggested, 'What about smelling feet?' " And it is as the prophet against "P.P." (Pedic Perspiration) that Gordon at last savors the simple pleasures of "a house of our own and a pram and an aspidistra...
Married seniors and Lampoon Fools also took part in the race pushing baby carriages. The Fools pram inexplicably caught fire, but they had pumps and hose lines ready to put out the fire and to spray the spectators. Later they were tossed into the lake...