Word: teat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate had just submitted. Informed that it was a study of the Wisconsin dairy industry, 1875-1885, he rasped: "Teat by teat...
Botching the Revolution. Nowhere is this kind of history produced in greater or grimmer volume than the present-day U.S., where a not-too-untypical Ph.D. candidate will write on "The Dairy Industry in Wisconsin Between 1875 and 1885." ("He must have covered the subject teat by teat," groaned a professor.) Though there are now an average 15 Ph.D.s laboring over each year of American history, historical interpretations have not noticeably improved. Pseudoscientific systems are no substitute for imagination. A case in point, writes Smith, is the American Revolution...
...Vice President is about as valuable as a cow's fifth teat," John Nance Carner declared with some feeling over twenty years ago. Today that statement may draw a laugh but surely not acquiescence. When national magazines run features like "The President's Heart: A Blunt Appraisal," and political writers consult actuarial tables, it is not an overstatement that the selection of a Democratic Vice Presidential candidate has a critical importance...
...especially by men who held it, a job fit only for a nonentity. It was called "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived" (John Adams, the first Vice President), "a fifth wheel to the coach" (Theodore Roosevelt), "as useful as a cow's fifth teat" (Harry Truman), and not worth a "pitcher of warm spit" (John Nance Garner...
...President dies. John Adams, first Vice President of the U.S., called it "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." Theodore Roosevelt considered it "a fifth wheel to the coach." Harry Truman said it was "useful as a cow's fifth teat," and John Nance Garner, Vice President under Franklin Roosevelt, told fellow Texan Johnson that the office was not worth a "pitcher of warm spit." In the days of Richard Nixon, it seemed that the vice-presidency was changing, toward greater scope and power. But Eisenhower delegated to Nixon special roles...