Word: swiped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wyburn and Miss Westbury, two elderly pussies whose skill in exchanging tattle and insults is so practiced that it is sometimes hard to know which is speaking. When one has clawed the other a particularly deep swipe, she always follows up with the stinging antiseptic, e.g. "I do assure you, Millie, I never dreamt of hurting your feelings...
...secondary teacher, I take umbrage at Mr. Griswold's swipe at me and my fellows. He regards us as weak links in the educational chain, and wishes to teach us our subject matter. Humph! . . . We don't teach a few hours a week. We are in there every day all day long. Our nights are spent in preparing our classes and correcting papers (a practice that could be followed by most professors I know...
...Guardian, however, expanded our beliefs into a swipe at President Conant. It said "among those currently plagued by 'safe plodding' the CRIMSON editors may have had in mind . . . Dr. Conant, who in February came out for 'continual flow into the armed forces of those who reach 18 . . . to defend the free world'." It was wrong. We had in mind only what we said: that there was a regrettable trend towards the stifling of unpopular opinion. We had nothing to say about the President's statement, with which we largely agree, and which is politically very far from "safe plodding...
...local newscaster took a swipe at the outing and the revellers, suggesting that instead of water pistols (a traditional Derby Day feature), the students should be given rifles to "join the kids out there in Korea who never had a chance to learn all the things they teach in college...
With a hefty swipe of a stainless steel shovel, President Benjamin F. Fairless started work last week on U.S. Steel Corp.'s new $400 million plant near Morris ville, Pa. The "Fairless Works" will pour 1,800,000 tons of steel a year, add about 5% to Big Steel's capacity. But the Morrisville plant was just the start of a rush; Jones & Laughlin, Armco Steel and Bethlehem were also hustling to multiply their capacity, along with a swarm of hastily formed new steel companies...