Word: socked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue of trust." Free translation: How can anyone trust Dick Nixon? In Ohio he called Nixon "one of the military-industrial-complex men who has little regard for peace." Later, he accused his adversary of being the "Number One doubletalker of all time." Both men implored their followers to "sock it to 'em," a phrase that sounded particularly ludicrous coming from middle-aged politicians of national stature...
...true visual flair, nothing beats rhythm-and-blues. Snazzy-stepping, soul-singing performers like James Brown and Wilson Pickett sock it to the faithful with a furious abandon that shakes the halls on college campuses and urban temples like Harlem's Apollo Theater or Chicago's Regal. Of all the R-and-B cats, nobody steams up the place like Sam & Dave...
...write something from an interview with a professional con man. I need more than those sweety questions.... Sock some nasties to him. You're a young radical, straight from Columbia...
...Boone, Dick Gregory and Jack Benny. And they will do anything once they get before a camera. Marceau in future programs will perform pantomime bits, but most of the other guests will utter senseless non sequiturs, or the reigning catch phrase of the moment, such as "irky perky!" and "Sock it to me!" Sammy Davis Jr., who last season turned his here-come-de-Judge antics into a rollicking miniballet, now reports that when he strolls through a Negro neighborhood, all the kids trail after him squealing the phrase in chorus. It would be only moderately surprising if next week...
...cabaret revues in London before coming to the U.S. in 1961 to star in the short-lived TV series Fair Exchange, The Baileys of Balboa and Love on a Rooftop. A spunky little pixie of a girl, she is the one forever getting drenched with water when she cries "Sock it to me!" Since she is presumably a little wiser now, the scripts go to elaborate lengths to get her to utter the deathless phrases. Now, when she appears as a geisha girl and says, "It may be rice wine to you, but its saki to me," kersplash...