Word: shagged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dobbin Succumbs. Young Ernie, nicknamed "Shag" for his pinkish, shaggy hair, was a born listener. Too small and bashful to play much with the other kids, he liked to sit around and hear the grown ups talk. What he heard he remembered...
These were sound journalistic groundings. But when he entered Indiana University in 1919, "Shag" Pyle had not decided much about his career except that he did not want to spend his life "looking at the south end of a horse going north...
...seemed to be working out. He had seized a country-Dutch Guiana (Surinam). He had temporarily stalemated the Japanese, at a time when every day's delay before the Japs went to war constituted a real victory for the U.S. American tanks and planes were helping the British shag the life out of the Axis troops in North Africa. The first U.S. ships bound direct-to-England, direct-to-Russia were loading cargo and guns to win the Battle of the Atlantic. Traffic on the Burma Road was up 400%. The Russians were still retreating, stubbornly, and seemed...
...Shag (British Empire...
...Mexican painters are good. But Mexicans paint as naturally as U. S. adolescents shag. Usually their painting says something. Says Critic Helm: "The vitality of the new democratic race of Mexicans has been urgent enough to awaken even Indian artists from their natural drowsiness. To the spectator from the North, accustomed to a European tradition which has assumed technical excellence as an essential means, much of the Mexican painting may seem, at first glance, not altogether proficient. There is precious little virtuosity in Mexico, there is even too little sacrificial taking of pains. But more than twoscore living Mexican artists...