Word: shucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complete control over the editorial operation, which some staffers complain has been neglected in recent years. Once known as the lively showcase for Charles Farrar Brown's humorous "Artemus Ward" columns, the Plain Dealer lately has grown stodgy enough to be described as "grandmotherly." Vail aims to shuck that adjective...
Bunions & Scars. At a house party in Fiedler's masterpiece of fictional illness, Nude Croquet, the middle-aged guests decide to shuck their clothes and play croquet in the buff. In the peep show that follows, the readers see "bulges and creases and broken veins, bunions and scars and grizzled hair . . . Leonard, vaguely hermaphroditic, pudgy and white; Eva, her cross falling just where her pancake makeup gave way to the slightly pimpled pallor of her skin; Achsa, tallow-yellow and without breasts; Beatie, marked with the red griddle of her corseting and verging on shapelessness; Marvin, sallow and unmuscled...
They had been called together by Athenagoras, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, who (by a tradition that dates back to the schism of Christendom between Rome and Constantinople in 1054) is the "first among equals" in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Modernminded Athenagoras, aware that Orthodoxy must begin to shuck its ancient animosities if it is to carry any weight in the world, had been working for a decade to organize the conference, and perhaps its most important achievement is that it was finally held...
...Last week, after yielding to ardent pleas from the changeable sheik, Heidi was back in the marital fold-but on terms. To lure Heidi home again, the sheik promised to pay her family back in Germany a stipend of $150 a month. And if he ever decides to shuck her again, the sheik is committed to pay Heidi's lawyer $7,500 and Heidi herself...
...sometimes seemed to be offering 25% off for rudeness. Big discounters such as the East's E. J. Korvette, Inc., New York's Friendly Frost chain, and Chicago-based Goodman's Community Discount Stores are opening new branches with piped-in music and fancier displays to shuck off "that warehouse look," adding such customer lures as charge accounts and home delivery. In the eight-story branch he will soon open on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, Korvette's Eugene Ferkauf will sell the usual discounted appliances and lower priced clothing in one part of the store...