Word: shooed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...isolate the pure amino acid extract. This year's group of five students will start to identify the acids. Silber pays his boys and girls 35? an hour ("enough for bus fare and supper money, but not enough to make the project a job"), often has to shoo them out of the lab at night...
...Almost a Shoo-In. From Carnarvon on the northwest shoulder of the continent, the bone-weary drivers struck out into the barrens of the "Never Never Land." Talcum-fine red dust blinded them, and tired eyes tricked them into braking their cars for no reason at all; strange, unearthy shapes seemed to dance across their headlight beams. This is kangaroo country, and the long-necked leapers chased cars down the road at speeds up to 40 m.p.h. One Japanese entry, a Toyopet Crown de Luxe, skidded off the road after a kangaroo bounced on its motor hood, dented a fender...
...Almost a shoo-in for three prizes (best of the big-car section, best woman entrant, best Queensland entrant), Geordie Anderson took time out to go home, do her washing, and check up on her daughters' housekeeping. Refreshed by a nap, she whipped through Canberra so fast that she was picked up for speeding. But apart from a damaged windshield, her Jag was still in good condition. Geordie finished far up in the overall standings (behind five Volkswagens), easily earned her three prizes, and went home with $1,215 plus assorted trophies, including an electric razor and a supply...
Last week, almost a quarter of a century since the German Reichstag and the Weimar Republic went up in flames together, Germany's second experiment in democracy was in the full flower of a free election. Though incumbent Chancellor Konrad Adenauer still seemed a shoo-in in a generally stodgy campaign (TIME, Sept. 2), the most significant fact about it was that the country seems directly and unmistakably headed for a two-party system. The two parties: Adenauer's Christian Democrats and the Socialists of Erich Ollenhauer...
...Eisenhower Administrations, who says modestly that he thinks that a big industrialist' should get the job; 3) air-and missile-minded Donald A. Quarles, onetime Bell Laboratories executive, later Secretary of the Air Force, now Deputy Secretary of Defense, a scientist and methodical thinker who was considered a shoo-in until vague but potent word got around that the President had misgivings that Quarles had not yet developed a big-picture mind -not enough forest, too many trees...