Word: shuttlecocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this international battledore, all sorts of shuttlecock expressions have cropped up. An instructor picked up the French word for take-off-decoler, now tells his students, "O.K., let's decolate." One student wrote on a plane's maintenance report: "Tail wheel crazy." Another promised to reprove a third trainee for carelessness: "I'll give to him the hell...
...enjoyed a picnic last Sunday afternoon in front of Briggs Hall. Music from recordings was audible throughout the grounds by means of a public address system, where three softball games with mixed teams were in progress, while at the other end of the grounds on a Badminton court, the Shuttlecock (bird) was taking a terrific beating from the rackets of both men and women. The tennis courts and the ping pong tables on the porch of Briggs Hall were used continuously...
...days our bridle." On the other, the Russians laughed, drank beer, slapped each other's backs, praised their Red Army "defenders." But among the friends and foes of each side there was a bitter search for reasons, a hunt for scapegoats, a vindictive beating back & forth of the shuttlecock of blame...