Word: sock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surface-to-surface missiles will add new sock to the Army's firepower punch...
...scene of several recent beatings and sluggings and the home of several gangland veterans of a 1952 riot at the Chillicothe, Ohio prison. Last week one, or two, or three Lewisburg inmates crept into a third-floor, four-man cell and swung a brick in a knotted white sock down on the head of a sleeping man. The victim: William Walter Remington, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa (Dartmouth), M.A. (Columbia), and convicted perjurer...
...told them that Pitt was on defense with the other team in possession inside Pitt's five-yard line. Then, he asked what cheers they would call for in such a situation. The first candidate picked, 'Hold that linel' The second said, 'Hold tight!' But the third yelled, 'Sock it to 'cm, Pitt!' and that's exactly the way I feel about football." After combatting alumni abuse, apathetic crowds, and devoting five years of dedicated effort, this has come to be the Harvard feeling about football. It is a good...
Jeeves is playing vassal to a new thane this time. Scatterbrained Bertie Wooster, for once apprehensive about the economic future of the British upper classes, has packed himself off to a home-economics school to learn all about cooking, sock-mending and polishing his own boots. Jeeves is on internal lend-lease to William, ninth Earl of Towcester, an amiable chap with "a marked shortage of the little gray cells ... It was generally agreed that whoever won the next Nobel Prize, it would not be Bill Towcester...
Abstraction. In Seattle, John E. Trimmer told police that he had bolted his apartment door, put $40 in a sock, put the sock on his foot and crawled into bed, next morning woke up to find the sock still on his foot, the $40 missing...