Word: socked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appellate judge in Lubeck declared the < country's laws against marijuana and hashish unconstitutional. In a ruling that must now be tested in the nation's highest court, Judge Wolfgang Neskovic overturned the conviction of a woman who had been caught hiding 1.2 grams of hashish in her sock...
...nice Harvard Law School graduate with crash test dummy charisma. (A compelling comparison, no?) Or he could have supported the candidacy of Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush of Andover, Yale and the Sy Sperling Inspirational Speech Club for Men. Or he could have stayed home to rearrange his sock drawer, twiddle his thumbs and watch candlepin bowling. You make the call...
...Washington the new sock-it-to-science stance is personified by Congressman Dingell, who has taken the lead in investigating the wrongdoings of researchers. Many scientists consider his intrusion into their domain dangerous because it threatens their long-held notion that science should be self-governed, self-regulated and self-policed. When Dingell asked the Secret Service to examine the notebooks in the Baltimore case for authenticity, some researchers accused him of launching a witch hunt and trying to establish "science police." Because of his badgering of scientists at congressional hearings, he has been charged with practicing McCarthyism. Says Maxine...
Thus when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control advises that anyone walking through grass or brush in tick-infested areas wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants taped into sock tops, many people actually do it, though the fashion statement is irredeemably tacky. The meticulous daily body inspection that is the most effective preventive is now a normal routine, like flossing teeth. What you are looking for is the nymphal stage of an arachnid (not an insect) that is louse-size only as an adult and that as a nymph has been compared to a dark freckle. Where...
...Living Color was a favorite with gulf soldiers, who yelled his phrase "Homey don't play that!" after hitting enemy targets. In New York City a 10-year-old bragged that he was imitating the ornery Homey when he hit an old lady on the head with a sock full of sand...