Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purebred Scottish form, the game is played on a 46-yd. strip of ice, usually on an indoor rink where the ice is more even and not subject to sudden thaws. At each end of the rink there are fixed bull's-eye targets (see diagram). Each player on a four-man team, captained by an authoritarian "skip," gets two shots at the target on each round. With a bowler's arm-swinging motion, the curler hoists a 40-lb. circular (maximum circumference: 36 in.) stone,* and sends it slithering down the ice toward the "tee line" bull...
Students will no longer be able to drink while they, watch the strippers. The Boston Licensing Board has issued a warning to cafes holding entertainment permits that any violation of an edict banning strip tease acts and female impersonations will mean immediate suspension or revocation of licenses...
...Bold" strip teasers and female impersonators were banned as well in a Friday dictum but so far no axe seems to have fallen on the Old Howard, a favorite student haunt...
...night he screamed, while prison guards prodded him with bamboo poles to silence him. He grew more & more irrational. One night, after screaming for about an hour, he became quiet, and the Reds discovered that they could no longer hurt Dr. William Wallace. His body was hanging from a strip of blanket tied to the top of his cell door...
...newest comic-strip character with intellectual appeal is a possum called Pogo. Born three years ago in the moribund New York Star* Pogo has multiplied himself with possumly precocity, and currently appears in 210 U.S. newspapers. Cartoonist Walt Kelly has now collected the best-known adventures of Pogo into a book which all but filled Santa's pouch with little marsupials. In fact, during the month of December, Pogo has been the fastest-selling book...