Word: socking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They'll try to sock it to a brother if they can," said Pfc. Alfred Exum Jr. of Denver, an assistant gunner on a 102 howitzer in the 82nd Airborne. "Just like civilian life, the white doesn't want to see the black get ahead...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Sock-man, 80, famed radio preacher who propounded Christian verities to millions of Americans each Sunday from 1928 to 1962 over NBC's National Radio Pulpit; of cancer; in Manhattan. Sockman was minister of Manhattan's Christ Church, Methodist, and the author of numerous inspirational books (The Higher Happiness, How to Believe). But his largest audience was on the air waves, where, as he once put it, "I pitched my sermons on a level somewhere between Reinhold Niebuhr and Norman Vincent Peale...
Married. Judy Carne, 31, Laugh-In's "Sock-It-To-Me" girl, presently starring in Broadway's The Boy Friend; and Robert Bergmann, 23, producer of TV commercials; she for the second time, he for the first; in a Unitarian ceremony attended by 100 onlookers and held at dawn in Manhattan's Central Park...
...becoming saturated. The deactivated command module was equipped with more purifiers, but their canisters were not interchangeable with the LM's. Mission Control instructed the astronauts to lead a second hose into the command module and connect it to the canisters. Leaving nothing to chance, the astronauts stuffed a sock in the connection to make sure it was snug...
Typically, Crockett enraged many whites. For weeks afterward, he was attacked for "releasing killers" and trying to "run the police department." Hate calls forced him to get an unlisted number. Automobile bumper stickers urged SOCK IT TO CROCKETT...