Word: socked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hire a masseuse. And from a moment in which Robert Cummings is supposed to slap her face, she learned Art's most cherished trade secret: One Must Suffer. She also taught it to Cinemactor Cummings. Cummings, a gentle young man, could not bring himself, after 22 tries, to sock Diana hard enough. At the 23rd take she kicked him in the shin with her high heel and he smacked her knock-kneed. Said Diana, without rancor: "If I hadn't done something, it could have gone on like that...
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...Some time ago you spoke of the difficulty night-shift workers have in sleeping in the daytime [TIME, June 15]. A black sock worn spectacle fashion should help (the toe over one ear, the top over the other-and the middle covering eyes and nose). It is cool, dark and comfortable...
...miles to Russia and Africa, reached the limits of toughness when the Far East blew up, 10,000 miles away. To serve all these routes there is only a thin line of poky, fat-bellied ships-a line that gets thinner as the routes get longer and enemy subs sock home their war heads...
...elderly man started to buy bonds some time ago, and keeps coming in regularly to buy bonds for his children. Altogether he has bought $15,000 worth, and keeps reminding the cashier that he "wishes he could buy twice as many," adding that he would "like to get a sock at Hitler myself...