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Word: sock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sake of good will, but he changed his mind. Paar gleefully announced his replacement: Moppet Star Evelyn (Eloise) Rudie, nine years old and ten inches shorter than Mickey's 5 ft. 3. Full of good taste. Paar had told his audience earlier that Mickey threatened to sock him on the nose, but Paar took flight because "I don't want to get hit in the knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Slipped Mickey | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Under that program, farmers were assured a slightly lower but still profitable Government price for all the corn they could raise. They turned up land that had not been used in years (TIME, May 25), poured on fertilizer, by last week were growing a record surplus that figures to sock the U.S. taxpayer $500 million or more for this year's crop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ike v. the Wheat Scandal | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...Vice President Richard M. Nixon's visit to Moscow [Aug. 3]. Why shouldn't the leaders of the nations meet, rub shoulders, wave fists and argue occasionally in public? Why shouldn't the peoples of the nations meet and discuss, argue and risk an occasional sock in the jaw? Altogether it is good, sharp, educational stuff for both us and the Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1959 | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...looked more closely, peering through the thick and irregular sides of what he now realized to be a Pernod bottle. "But it's only a black sock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fried Shoes | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Gorce leaned forward on his chair and with deep feeling corrected Vag: "A dirty black sock. With a hole in it. Some of my friends say life is nothing but a big laughing-bowl but I tell you"--and here he leaped to his feet--"life is a very dirty sock with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fried Shoes | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

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