Word: snugly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although his main love is teaching, he likes the administrative side of education, and even has built himself a snug philosophy to justify his dual role as teacher-administrator. "When you're an administrator," he contends, "you tend to think of yourself as the best teacher in the school, but if you do some teaching at the same time, you can deflate yourself quite easily. You find that you can put a class to sleep as fast as anyone else...
...first snow is falling. Soon the snow packs will form, and a thousand rivulets, streaming down to the outstretched finger rivers of the Missouri, will freeze over. Across the lonely badlands and treeless plains, the rain is mild and gentle, and the Big Muddy and its tributaries are snug in their beds. In Iowa and Nebraska, in Montana and the Dakotas, all but the latest crops are in. For the farmers and ranchers of the Missouri Valley, one year of risk and struggle is ending, another will soon begin...
...Snug Socks. In New York City, Esquire Socks introduced one-size nylon Expand-O socks which it claims will fit any man's feet. The nylon fiber is made by a secret process that gives it an elastic quality, permits the socks to expand evenly so that they do not cramp the feet. Price: $1.50 a pair...
...Korea, the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing enjoyed a pleasant change of scenery with the arrival of Betty Mutton and her U.S.O. troupe. Wearing a duckbill cap and a snug winter jacket, Betty joined the boys in the mess hall where a photographer caught a rare shot of her mobile face in repose. Later, she sang and danced for her hamburger supper with the usual Hutton gusto...
...Snug Harbor. As the magazine grew, it no longer hired everybody who stuck his head in the door. Wallace even took on some professionals. Some of them are ex-editors of magazines which Wallace had once "digested," and which later died. Kenneth W. Payne came from the North American Review, at 61 is now executive editor of the Digest. The managing editor, Alfred S. ("Fritz") Dashiell, came from Scribner's. After the Review of Reviews and the Literary Digest folded, Howard ("Skipper") Florance, who had edited both, came over; as senior editor, he now runs the "planting" of Digest...