Word: twitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think offbeat," helped develop such CBS shows as Playhouse go, See It Now, Twentieth Century. At CBS, suave and slender (5 ft. 8 in., 150 Ibs.) Vice President Robinson also became known as a cold, meticulous personality, given to $250 Dunhill suits. He sometimes interrupted business conferences to twit an aide for wearing the "wrong" shoes or socks...
Belloc's faith shines through all his correspondence, but the special sparkle of the letters comes from Belloc's "great lifebuoy of humour, which is a sort of sister or companion aid to the Faith." In his gloomiest moods he could break off to twit a friend whom he had caught in a split infinitive...
...rather interesting people have opened a new coffee shop on Mount Auburn Street that smacks not one twit of the desperate degeneracy one sometimes associates with such places on this street...
Overnight, Maria's clothes crisis became another front-page sensation. The fellow-traveling Avanti jumped at the chance to twit church papers: "[They] are evidently discontented with God, for they seek to change His creations." The nationwide hoopla was too much for Maria, and she refused to appear in a specially fashioned dress. Turin...
...Jenkins, 73, bronzed, white-haired iron man of auto endurance trials (his last record: 118.37 m.p.h. for 24 hours in a stock Pontiac-TIME, July 9), onetime mayor (1940-44) of Salt Lake City (before he took office he changed his name legally from David Abbott to Ab, to twit critics who said he needed more dignity); of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. Among Ab Jenkins' unbroken records: 200 miles at 195.85 m.p.h., 1,000 miles at 172.83 m.p.h., 3,000 miles at 165.76 m.p.h...