Word: thinkin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forgotten, not by a long shot. The boat-ownin' toffs of England start thinkin' of 'is well-bein', an' they set off by the thousands to 'elp bring back the lads off the beaches. Sorry day for Blighty, all right. Only one boat makes it across without bein' blown up, and when she gets there, this 'ere corporal and 'is five men 'itch a ride 'ome off 'er without hardly any of the other 100,000 poor bleeders on the beach even stirrin' off their arsenal...
...plate. Piper promised him a $5 monthly bonus for hitting more than .300, and Willie never collected. "Trouble was," says Piper, "he stood a little too close and stuck that left shoulder around in front of him like he was peekin' at the pitcher. He kept thinkin' for a while that all the pitchers were trying to hit him, but he was just crowdin...
...that "all the grocer has to do is unlock the front door and exercise his gifts as a salesman, a likable guy and a square businessman." Says successful Grocer Garofalo: "I've got supervision and store planning and help. I'm a happy man. I'm thinkin...
...board, enriched flour, sun bathing, brief swimsuits and many of the foods known today to be the richest in vitamins. Macfadden hoped to usher in a second Reformation, but, as he rightly remarked of the leader of the first one: "[Luther] sat around doin' too much thinkin' and takin' cracks at the Pope. That's not the way to make a success these days...
Married. Patricia ("Honeychile") Wilder Cernadas, 32, Georgia-born playgirl of the International Set, who claimed she once almost shot Egypt's King Farouk, "thinkin' he was a duck"; and Prince Alexander Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfurst, 33, who fled Poland just before the German invasion in 1939; she for the third time, he for the second; in Greenwich, Conn...