Word: skunked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Butz started by telling a dirty joke involving intercourse between a dog and a skunk. When the conversation turned to politics, Boone, a right-wing Republican, asked Butz why the party of Lincoln was not able to attract more blacks. The Secretary responded with a line so obscene and insulting to blacks that it forced him out of the Cabinet last week and jolted the whole Ford campaign. Butz said that "the only thing the coloreds are looking...
...finally over, because nobody who has a nose can be a winner in an atmosphere so polluted by Sox fever. It's as if the government demanded that every person living within a 60-mile radius of Boston spend an hour each day in a room with a skunk...
...eleven names on the list are matched with presents, a pile of gifts continues to grow. Four briefcases, three gold cigarette lighters, a necklace, one duffle bag and a bracelet are ready to go, but Elton has a problem. "What are we going to get for Skunk?" he asks, referring to Guitarist Jeff Baxter. "Does he smoke...
...Skunk Works. Johnson, who retires this month shortly before his 65th birthday, received the Air Force's highest civilian medal that December afternoon in Ohio, and later the same day was inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame. Those were only the latest tributes in an extraordinary career. During more than four decades at Lockheed, Johnson personally directed the design and production of 40 planes, including the first American combat jet (F-80), the U-2 spy plane and the Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) SR-71, which recently flew from New York to London...
Loeb justified his Union Leader policy of front-page editorials which employ such colorful nicknames as "The Skunk" for Eugene McCarthy and "Moscow Muskie" For Sen. Edmund S. Muskie (D-Me.) on the grounds that he thus "stirs up his readers" and "creates excitement...