Word: skunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With American trackmen improving every week, the notion that the regimentalized Russians will skunk the Americans in Melbourne seems as obsolete as the 4½-minute mile. J. Lyman Bingham, executive director of the U.S. Olympic Association, glanced over the results of the week's two meets, then happily made a flat prediction: "We'll have the best team we've ever...
...wanted cotton, tobacco, wheat, rice and peanuts supported at a rigid 90% of parity. The vote was 124-39 for flexibility. Drawled E. H. Agnew, South Carolina cotton farmer who had helped lead the defeated Southerners: "It's like being a bastard at a family reunion and a skunk at a wedding reception...
...edible mushrooms. ("The spring kind's the best-morels. Sponge type, brown on top.") He has another bit of information that probably is unique among U.S. governors. One day, hunting with schoolmates, he reached into a rabbit hole, pulled out an animal. He found himself holding an angry skunk in front of his face. Says Craig: "I know how it tastes-kinda sweet; I know how it feels in your eyes-goddam, it nearly kills...
...National Convention, in defiance of the Bar Association's canons of judicial ethics. When a political opponent, Will Leach, criticized Maxey, the chief justice publicly replied: "I refuse to enter into a personal controversy with him because no self-respecting man engages in a physical contest with a skunk or a mental contest with a moron ... If the share of the milk of human decency which the Creator allotted to Leach was churned, it would yield nothing but Limburger cheese...
From New York: "Red skunk . . . Hope you are struck...