Word: scoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harper Woods, near Detroit, parents demanded an ordinance to prohibit a local drive-in from showing "objectionable" pictures. Reason: neighborhood children were watching the drive-in screen at night from their bedrooms-especially Jane Russell's often-banned French Line. The youngsters, claimed their fathers, were happy to scoot up to bed; moreover, they did not mind lack of sound from the film...
Dong Manchester, ailing slightly will not play unless he is in top shape according to team members. But Welland has drummed up a good looking hue consisting of George Chase at right wing. Frank Mahency at center, and Scoot Cooledge on the left. Chase has been on the first line at intervals throughout the season...
...news to me ... I certainly don't approve ... It seems to me to be unfair publicity." The New York Herald Tribune carried Ogilvy's idea to its logical conclusion: "Can't you just picture the diplomat going through life turning in his car for a motor-scoot and sending Junior to Harvard? Then a switch to a bike and away goes daughter to finishing school...
...likes living in "a middle-class house on a middle-class street in a middle-class village full of middle-class people" (i.e., Westchester County's Larchmont). She even writes poetry about it two or three mornings a week after her two young daughters (13 and 11) scoot off for school...
...much of a hitter, but he taught himself to be the best bunter in the business. As a shortstop, he had none of the easy, fluid grace of the Cardinals' Marty Marion, nor the rifle arm of the Red Sox's Vern Stephens. But Rizzuto learned to scoot around his short-field like a hopped-up water bug, to make throws from any position short of standing on his head. Within five years after Stengel's blunt advice, the "Scooter" had nailed down the shortstop job with the New York Yankees...