Word: socked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experimented at night in his living room with a broom for an oar. He decided that the traditional Oxford style, in which oarsmen put their maximum power at the end of a long layback stroke, was not only unsound but uncomfortable. He taught a short stroke with a "sock" as the blade entered the water; the men were sitting upright at the end of the stroke, and ready for a quick recovery. In 1917, Hiram Conibear was killed (when he fell out of a cherry tree) but Washington crews went east year after year to win fame at Poughkeepsie. Last...
When Dublin's Irish Times turns up with an item saying "Fur-collared, Paisley-scarved, Churchill-sock-wearing Walter Graebner" is in town, F.Y.I. passes on the information and points out that TIME International's European Area Director was wearing a pair of Winston Churchill's socks because he fell into a pond on the ex-Prime Minister's estate at Chartwell...
When we record the scenes about the Yard, it shall be with enthusiasm; we shall mark the times and deeds with truth; and we shall look for the humanity in man. We will laugh, and let him protest whom the jester's sock pinches. We shall ask questions and they shall be blunt. Come with us, Veritas; we want your company, and we hope that you may profit from ours. We will have an answer ready when you ask, "Quo vadimus...
...Toes. In Springfield, Mass., when a postman injured his leg, fellow workers took off his shoe and sock, found his toenails red, his face redder. Smirking, he explained: "My wife did that...
...crash flash, WALL STREET LAYS AN EGG, and its STIX Nix Hix Fix, when bucolic cinemas' flopped in the hinterland) have attained a kind of backstage immortality. So have flopperoo, push over, palooka, scram, to click; and such trade phrases as "boff" (a variation of sock or punch) for smash hit, "preem," as a verb meaning to stage a premi...