Word: sucked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lives life to the hilt, meanwhile sticks to the manor, takes all the land and love he can get, and happily commits incest with his wild and passionate half sister, who hates him ("I shall . . . make his blood rot, send snakes to drink his eyes, and leeches to suck his heart...
Pool Cleaner. To clean the bottom of a swimming pool without draining it, Poolmaster, Inc., of Burlingame, Calif., has developed a 4½-lb. vacuum cleaner on a 15-ft. handle. The machine uses water pressure from a garden hose to suck the pool dirt into a large detachable orlon bag. Price...
...Supreme Court colleagues (one was called "Bushy" after bearded Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes). Aside from Forestry, for example, Ickes made a grab for power over TVA, and when TVA Administrator David Lilienthal protested, Ickes wrote: "He is the type that wants his own little stick of candy to suck in the corner without anyone's being allowed to go anywhere near him." When a Roosevelt order deprived Ickes of some of his precious agencies, Ickes moaned: "I really believe that I am better physically when I am overworked. Ever since the President took PWA and other agencies away...
...worked for Eastman Kodak until he decided that he could do better on his own, Morse started out with the basic idea that high-vacuum (i.e., removing all the air) techniques could be useful to U.S. business. He and his staff developed machines efficient enough to suck all but a cupful of air out of an area as big as Chicago's Union Station. Then he worked out ways to use vacuum processes to dehydrate foods without killing vitamins or taste, refine metals better by keeping out impurities formed by the metals' contact with air, powder drugs faster...
Last week a 'Cliffe administration ruling imposed tight "Harvard-like restrictions on all 'Cliffedwellers in examinations. But the Annex Student Council has reacted to the order and issued an ultimatum to Dean of Residence Emily Lacey. It demands that 'Cliffedwellers continue to be allowed to "chew gum and suck lollipops" in examinations...