Word: shoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shooing Sheep. In the search for the right vacation home, people occasionally work out triple exchanges. A few summers ago, a farmer from Republic, Ohio, wanted to take his family to Detroit to race a high-stepping trotting horse. But the exchange house the agency had listed belonged to a Detroit schoolteacher who wanted to spend his vacation in New York. The impasse was finally breached by a Manhattan professor who wanted some country air. The Detroit schoolteacher took over the professor's Manhattan flat; the farmer got the schoolteacher's house outside Detroit; and the professor...
...parts of eastern Italy, priests have had to keep the phrase "body of Christ" in Latin, because saying it in Italian is a common local curse. In Tuscany, clerics find it embarrassing to end the Mass with Andate in pace (Go in peace)-locally the most common way to shoo away a beggar. Trying to come up with a common Mass text for Brazil and Portugal, translators discovered that they could not use the most common Brazilian word for servant (servidor): in Portugal it means bedpan...
Navy's Mike Brown is a shoo-in in the pole vault. Army's Gerry Lawrence and Princeton's Mike Mitchell and John Morse should share the next three positions...
...Dave Dunsky waged a head-and-head duel in the mile, with Jutras pushing ahead by a stride at the tape to win in 4:14.8. Dunsky lost another heartbreaker in the two-mile. With two laps to go, he sprinted past Dave Allen and looked like a shoo-in, but B.C.'s Bill Norris stuck to his heels and pushed by a few yards from the tape. The time was 9:12.8. Jim Smith was third and Allen fifth for Harvard...
...shot, the Eagles' Carl Wallin is a shoo-in for the win. B.C.'s Flore and Post, and Harvard's Ray Frieden and Tom Choquette are all near equals at the 50-ft. level...