Word: shucked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authorship is on the whole a healthy one and authors are apt to live on long after they have given the world whatever of significance they had to offer." Still healthy at 73, "Willie" Maugham finds the manufacture of short stones without significance a habit he can't shuck...
Fredda soon found that she was typed as "that fast-singing Lucky Strike girl." One day, after a tough stretch, she decided to remodel herself, shuck the Hit Parade mannerisms, get a new name and a new agent. It turned out that her lusty, slower-paced new-style singing was a good complement to radio's comedians. Georgia drifted into a period of stooging for most of the top funny men: Hope, Durante, Frank Morgan, Milton Berle, Danny Kaye. She practiced her comedy lines and learned to "get into the show." She also picked up some brassy publicity tricks...
...readers, the Pantagraph runs more farm news than Prairie Farmer, backs its "clean and consistent record of internationalism" with full coverage of world affairs. (Adlai Stevenson, another Fell descendant and minority stockholder of the Pantagraph, is a U.S. Alternate Delegate to U.N.) Politically the Pantagraph has never hesitated to shuck its normal Republicanism when a Democrat looked better...
...exorcise these evils, Dow Chemical Co. offers dinitro-ortho-secondarybutyl-phenol, which it calls Dowspray 66 Improved. Sprayed on the vines, it shrivels them to chaff. Potatoes, synthetically frosted, stop growing, toughen their skins. Diggers shuck them out of the ground unclogged by greenery...
...that the books of Transamerica were padded with good will, inflated evaluations of subsidiary companies; that Giannini's $1,100,000,000 estimate of its worth was $800 million too high. He had sold the New York banks, booted Gian nini men out of Transamerica, was preparing to shuck off Bank of America...