Word: socked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War I, Murray joined Lord David Cecil and Sir Norman Angell in urging a strong League of Nations, in 1946 became a joint president of Britain's United Nations Association. The precise scholar, who could also baffle friends with a parlor trick of taking off a sock without removing his shoe, once said that "only in peace is it possible for a man to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with...
...Sock it to 'em," said Lloyd with a cheer...
...Commission discreetly omitted the picture from the list approved for showing in theaters of the armed forces; G.I.s will have to go to public movie houses to see it.) But in 18 key cities from New York to Los Angeles, Baby Doll piled up grosses that Variety called HUGE, SOCK, WHOPPING and TERRIF...
...made of gunpowder, set to be detonated by a cheap watch movement wired to a flashlight battery-all contained in a short (2-5 in.) length of ordinary pipe capped at both ends. And, to provide the final touch, the pipe was stuffed into a man's red sock...
...Yourself. Last month in a Brooklyn movie house, a pipe-bomb exploded, injured seven people. On Christmas Eve a page found a sock-wrapped bomb in a telephone booth of the New York Public Library. Three days later the bomb squad followed a tip to Times Square's famed Paramount Theater, searched high and low after the last show, found another pipe-bomb hidden in a seventeenth-row seat. Two detectives dressed in protective steel clothing gingerly loaded the bomb into a steel-mesh enclosed police truck, whisked it out to a lonely beach...