Word: stinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feel that this is an example, on a small scale, of the type of McCarthy scare that is suffusing the government at this time," Coolidge said. "They feel that if McCarthy had gotten wind of my appointment, he would have raised a terrific stink...
...Premier Johannes ("Joho") Hoffmann and his pro-French Christian People's Party. The pro-Germans made up a word for his supporters-Speckfranzosen, i.e., literally, bacon-Frenchmen; loosely, pro-French for material interests. They jeered at the portly Joho as a longtime French puppet, and threw stones and stink bombs to break up his meetings. Whenever he appeared, crowds were on hand to beset him. When he addressed Brebach steelworkers last week, hecklers crowded outside the hall and yelled "Pfui!" when he left...
...social butterfly ("I was brilliant ... I was wearing a waistcoat, silk breeches and black stockings, with a cinnamon-bronze coat, a very well arranged cravat, a superb frill . . . My whole soul appeared") was brought to earth by the lucid critic ("I realize that the works I've written stink...
...just the night before, he had butted, bunny-hugged and bulled his way through a feeble 15-round imitation of a fist fight, walked off with a unanimous decision and the Kid's title. A loud majority of the fans agreed that no performance had raised such a stink in Convention Hall since the Progressive Party Convention...
...Stratton aide told reporters that the governor would stay away from the dinner if Charlie Wilson showed up. Wilson, home in Michigan, insisted on going. "The girl's been propositioned," he said. "The marriage ceremony has been arranged. To call it off now would raise quite a stink." Big Ed Moore, Cook County G.O.P. chairman, quivered: "It would be an impossible situation . . . embarrassing...