Word: socked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...envied colleagues. They will snicker as professional actors flub a three-line introductory speech. For the benefit of 80 million TV-watching Americans, the movie people will put on a spectacle that combines the solemnity of graduation day at West Point with the giddy naivete of a greasers' sock...
...sell this noble project to my constituency at home? and I can't tell them," Keenan explained. He added that the Reagan administration's desire to improve productivity "encourages them to support the hard sciences--engineering--instead of these social science wimps with one blue sock and one brown sock on, but in the long run, that is a mistake...
...loose and knock the heck out of a lot of people, but my good judgement and size hold me back. Instead I use my imagination and let the sailor do the scrapping." Of course, Popeye never used force unjustifiably. "Treat ever' body right and if they steps on ya, sock 'em!" was his motto. The comic strip did not glorify but rather burlesqued violence, turning it into slapstick. He became and remains an incongrous folk hero--a cross between one of the Stooges and Superman...
...battle. He plows his acres; he makes crude wooden boxes with crude iron tools. His wife has a comb and looks like Bjorn Borg in drag. Living in a permanent crisis economy, he believes in bullion as a hedge against disaster. He cannot keep his gold in a sock (archaeology has not so far produced a Viking sock, though the Met has some withered shoes in a glass case), but he melts plundered silver down into ingots. Sometimes he buries them, wanders off across the Skagerrak to kill a few more Irish scribes, and forgets where the cache...
...Fred Stanley has little to complain about. There is plenty of talent around to complement his own. In this barnyard the Chicken must surely have confidence that he will emerge by October as the champion among champions that he is. Sock it to 'em Fred (Stanley...