Word: rub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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King was coated with ice but was revived by a good rub-down...
Experts & Superexperts. At Marie's second trial, which opened in Bordeaux in 1954, three informers who had been placed by police in Marie's cell claimed that she had planned to hire some Marseille gangsters to rub out her gossipy neighbors-but again the uncertainties of toxicology came to her aid. The experts could not agree, and one became so flustered that he had a tantrum on the witness stand, sat down, crossed his legs, folded his arms, and refused to speak. Thoroughly bewildered, the judge called for a panel of "superexperts," released Marie Besnard on bail, ordered...
What words are locked in Thurber? There is rue and her (Thurber's battle of the sexes, of course); hurt (the battle does not go well); the rub (Walter Mitty playing Hamlet); rube (the author was an Ohio boy); and true (it is harder to fool little girls these days...
...Russia's 30-megaton bomb drifted eastward from Novaya Zemlya last week, few governments acted so elaborately unconcerned as the satellite regimes. But Eastern Europe's people showed their alarm by buying up prodigious quantities of table salt in the widespread (and erroneous) belief that a salt rub is the best protection against radioactivity...
...strong national party favoring abolition of apartheid and direct representation of nonwhites in the Assembly, the Progressive group was formed in 1959 by eleven U.P. members disenchanted with their party's racism. Although in the election they lost ten of their eleven seats to U.P. candidates pledged to rub them out, the Progressives pulled in 69,000 votes (20,000 more than anticipated) from defecting moderates fed up with the lack of racial alternatives between the two major parties. In Johannesburg and Durban, the Progressives polled heavily, winning one seat and losing four others by fewer than...