Word: socked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Taylor promptly made the most of it. In his Senate office, he hoisted his trouser leg, dropped his sock, and displayed a four-inch scratch suffered, he said, when a Birmingham policeman shoved him into a wire fence...
Winthrop nosed out the Dunster eight by about the width of a dirty sweat sock yesterday in the most closely contested intramural crew heat of the day. The margin of victory was so small that even the winning crow, clocked at 4:28, was in some doubt as to which shell had crossed the line first...
...rapidity with which the disorders spread through Bogotá and then to other Colombian cities certainly indicated skilled direction, if not considerable planning. And the result suited the party, right down to the ground. Said the New York Daily Worker: "Interruption of the Foreign Ministers' parley is a sock in the jaw to the Big Business men of the State Department...
Died. Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland, 59, topflight football coach; after a brain tumor operation; in Pittsburgh. Light on razzle-dazzle and heavy on rock-&-sock fundamentals, he got the University of Pittsburgh five Rose Bowl bids in his 15 years (1924-39) as coach there, afterwards boosted the lowly Pittsburgh Steelers professional team to a position of power in the National League. His outstanding lifetime winning percentage...
...farmers simply measure their profits by money in the bank (or sock), their deficits by money owed the bank (many of them borrow at the start of the season). Last week, most of them thought they were losing money, but none knew for sure. This much they did know: a duck eats 25 pounds of feed in the nine weeks it takes to reach the five-pound-plus marketing size. At $100 a ton for feed, that is $1.25 for a duck which now brings around $1.22½ at the commission house...