Word: shucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loafers of no great intelligence use him as the butt for broad humorous gibes. But when his older brother runs out on the family and his widowed mother dies, the small community becomes their brother's keeper. They fail him, most of them, and after their effort to shuck him off onto the insane asylum collapses, the deeper tragedy follows. Author Williams is talking about the failure of human responsibility not through vindictiveness but through indifference. She does it with sureness, for she knows her villagers and she knows even more importantly, that when a man has failed another...
...Newhall's most telling moves was to overload the Chronicle-which has only 41 cityside reporters-with 40 columnists, writing about everything from jazz (Ralph Gleason) to how to shuck out of a brassiére (Count Marco). News often gave way to such oddball features as a lavishly illustrated Page One Halloween story on five nightgowned girls terrified by a "haunted" apartment. In a further effort to woo subscribers, the Chronicle offered a two-month subscription for the price of one, and gave away a scale-model San Francisco cable car to any new four-month subscriber with...
...down the trade barriers that are always a sign of weakness. They could start to share with the U.S. in the immense and compelling job of aiding the world's underdeveloped lands. Those lands, with examples of successful free enterprise ranging from West Germany to Japan, were beginning to shuck off their socialist notions of economic order by government decree. Thus the tooling of U.S. fiscal responsibility to the facts of economic life set off by 1959 a revolution in dynamic ideas and plans that held out to the humblest of peoples the promise of a better life...