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Word: sock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bobbies Sock. In Bridgwater, England, Referee Edwin Braund stopped a football match between two police teams because the players were using too many rough and illegal tactics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 9, 1959 | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...years), the Coach found the sudden vindication almost too much to take-and maybe a little late. "I just feel sort of sunk," he said, getting ready to go back. "It's been a long, long eleven years, and I'm wrung out like an old sock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Return of The Coach | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

There was less excuse for the student studying Allegro. In this work, the poet speaks of reading Ben Jonson's play Learned Sock. It came out on the exam thus: "Young Milton, out strolling in the country, saw Jonson's socks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exam Blooopers | 1/28/1959 | See Source »

...morals and aesthetics of business, certainly. Point out, too, that the gusty days of the Robber Barons and Captains of Industry have passed away with the Golden Age of Comedy, and that the day-to-days of the organization man just don't have any kind of romantic sock to them...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: The Profit of Profit | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

Through her parlor window she has watched the world build and the buildings crumble; neon signs, sound trucks, street-cleaners, and bums. She has blessed armies and saved tin cans, and occasionally knitted a sock, in private...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gentlemen Will Save the World | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

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