Word: wagged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozed at the wheel, she cried: "But I did! That's what caused it all." She confessed her negligence at great length to reporters and the police - practically forcing authorities to take away her driver's license for 3½ months, and prompting some nameless wag to erect a sign at the highway's edge: MRS. ROOSEVELT SLEPT HERE. But the aftermath was a happy one. Everyone recovered. Mrs. Roosevelt's protruding front teeth were broken in the accident; the porcelain caps which replace them subtly changed her whole face and gave her a sweet, warm...
...Look out, Wilt! Gehrmann's behind you!" shouted a wag as the runners pounded around the first turn of Madison Square Garden's indoor track. FBI Man Fred Wilt, running in a special two-mile race in the IC4A meet last week, ignored the gibe, but he could hardly miss hearing the excited murmur of the crowd when the time at the mile mark was announced: 4:25.1. Racing once more at his favorite distance, Wilt was no longer playing pacesetter for Don Gehrmann's come-from-behind winning sprints at the mile...
...only reason the Harrison Williamses don't live like princes," observed a Manhattan wag during 1929's golden bull market, "is that princes can't afford to live like the Harrison Williamses...
...Some college administrations look upon football as the tail which wags the dog," said Jordan. "Administrators don't realize that the tail can't wag the dog if the head controls the tail." We hope that through all this canine metaphysics, Jordan is trying to say that athletics must be kept in their proper place as a small part of college education, and not a business or a prestige item. It would be nice, though, if he would reaffirm this clearly every time he speaks on the subject, to prevent people from getting the wrong idea. Football policy...
...much international squabbling as its financing. It will presumably rest with a cumbersome combination of high commission, general assembly and council of ministers. If, as its backers hope, the European army is to be a strong first move towards unifying Europe politically, the tail will have to wag the dog mightily...