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Word: slop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grunting through a rainy afternoon, the Pigs triumphed over the Goats by a score of 19-0 at Eastern Michigan University, winning the cherished Pig Bowl trophy-a slop pail. The real winners, however, were needy children of the Ann Arbor area. Some 3,000 tickets were sold for the benefit game to buy Christmas toys. The Pig Bowl was also, in a small way, a victory for reason and humor. The Goats were none other than the police of Ann Arbor, and the Pigs were the Washtenaw County sheriff's deputies, who know how to put an epithet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Fuzz with Humor | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

When musing on the result, I can only think of the Travers of two years ago. Damascus won by twenty-two lengths in the slop and tied the track record...

Author: By The Scientist, | Title: A Most Artful Dodger | 8/12/1969 | See Source »

...Lieut. Colonel Mike Collins, who will orbit the moon in the command module while Armstrong and Aldrin land and return from the surface, is by all accounts the most likable member of the crew. Though he comes from a distinguished military family, he goes out of his way to slop around in jeans and act as unmilitary as possible. He enjoys cooking gourmet dinners and knows his way around French wines. To Collins, everybody is "Babe," and he likes to poke fun at the bloated titles that the simplest pieces of space hardware carry. "What we need in the space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moon: THE CREW: MEN APART | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

NOBLE LAND should repeat after stunning race in slop, OLYMPUS II comes off powerful conditioning race where it finished second, TANTEO was not allowed to run in last effort...

Author: By The Scientist, | Title: Today's Bets At Suffolk Downs | 7/3/1969 | See Source »

Baffle-Gab Theology Sir: Re your Baffle-Gab Thesaurus [Sept. 13], you failed to note that the bureaucrat selecting 257, "systematized logistical projection," would undoubtedly also feel compelled to invent a suitable acronym for his invention: in this case, SLOP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1968 | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

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