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Word: socked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...duel to the death! The executive committee of the bourgeoisie casts off the hypocritical veil of congressional government and campaigns in its own name, while the section of the labor movement which has reached only trade union consciousness presses for its share of the surplus! The boff 'em, sock 'em bout of the century...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: Rocky and His Friends | 7/30/1976 | See Source »

...debater came during the turbulent 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Appearing on ABC-TV, while demonstrators and police rioted in the streets, Vidal called Fellow Commentator William F. Buckley Jr. a "crypto Nazi." Buckley riposted: "Now listen, you queer. Stop calling me a crypto Nazi or I'll sock you in your goddam face and you'll stay plastered." Mutual lawsuits finally came to a well-earned nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GORE VIDAL: Laughing Cassandra | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

Phil Hart sock Chagrin Falls, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 1, 1975 | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

Clive said yesterday that he and G. W. Bowersock '57, chairman of the Classics Department, will attend another Gibbon bicentennial conference in Rome this January, The conference, which Bower-sock called "Clive's brainchild," will be sponsored by the magazine "Daedalus," and will include 20 scholars from the United States and Europe...

Author: By Richard S. Blatt, | Title: Yale Scholar Draws Parallel Between America and Rome | 11/14/1975 | See Source »

Other explanations, though, have been advanced. One Red Sox booster, who likes to implore his favorites to "sock it to 'em," said that his laundry bag was too full, and thus, he couldn't find any room for his socks. It might be added that more than just this person's socks qualified for the Sanitation Department Hall of Fame...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Savoir-Faire | 10/23/1975 | See Source »

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