Word: socked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patients in person. He prescribed for the distant sick by listening to a description of their symptoms, then smelling and tasting shirts, brassières, girdles or any other apparel that had been in contact with the afflicted anatomy. Once Tupá Mbaé investigated a man's sock and correctly diagnosed hookworm, only to learn that the patient was not worried about his hookworm but about his undetected tuberculosis...
...took a long white envelope from his left sock. He handed over photographs and drawings of rifles and a mosquito boat. (Sebold, as impassive as Buster Keaton, thoughtfully turned the photographs toward the camera.) Duquesne, talking about guns and bombs, pantomimed aiming...
Betty Newell, a bride of four months, is scarcely taller than her driver, weighs 110 lb. in her golfing togs. She can sock a ball farther, they say, than hardy Betty Jameson or husky Patty Berg (now a pro). Two years ago, in her first try for the national championship, she reached the semifinals, lost to tournament-tough Betty Jameson...
...Louis is not only the Gene Tunney but the Bobby Jones of his race. He has done more than any other person to popularize golf among Negroes. But on the fairway, Joe is no Jones. Aided by his mighty right, he can sock a ball nearly 300 yards. "But," he moans, "I have trouble with my left hook and just ain't got that delicate touch around the greens." Still, under the private instruction of Bermudian Pro Louis Corbin and Washingtonian Clyde Martin, his present tutor, Louis has become a better than average golfer, has often chalked up scores...
...enable the curse of the juju-a black snake-to emerge and attack any prospective thief. The commanding officer of the flight speaks very highly of the efficiency of the juju, and I concur with him, observing that before the installation of the juju no wind sock ever remained in situ for more than 48 hours, while after its application the wind sock was untouched...