Word: socked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world's best fat-man water skier." He has padded around the Governor's mansion in bunny pajamas. He drives a Corvette and a pick-up truck and, while Governor, has been ticketed for speeding on his Yamaha 1100 motorcycle. He presides over an annual birthday "sock hop" in a greaser's T shirt. But most of Janklow's constituents look beyond the quirks. Admits Frankenfeld: "He's given South Dakotans a sense of pride in their state they haven't felt before." -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by J. Madeleine Nash/Sioux Falls
...owned company. The deal was worked out with the help of the management-consulting firm of McKinsey & Co., investment banker Lazard Frères & Co. and other consultants. Their fees will be paid partly by the townspeople of Weirton (pop. 28,000), who have joined in planning everything from sock hops to telethons to save the plant...
...river here in Lauderdale. Now, however, the dry Chamber is talking with the wet Chamber over yonder about a merger. The view behind this turn seems to be that while the American economy may be on the mend, it will not be a fast mend, like darning a sock, and, rather than wait, well, liquor is quicker. - By Gregory Jaynes
Nothing, however, will rival the day that Ball opened a package addressed to Harvard and found only black rosary beads and a sweat sock "When I first got this. I wasn't sure whether there was something had inside like poison. You never know what's in the letters," he says...
...small pot held over the boiling water, melt 2/3 of the can of sweetened condensed milk, the peanut butter chips, and two tablespoons of butter, stirring constantly. If the handle of the pot gets too hot, use something thick like a tube sock to cover the handle and absorb heat. Which the mixture is thoroughly mixed, remove like heat and stir in the peanuts...