Word: wagged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wag recently said, "I wonder what happened to Chapman. Maybe Melville stopped writing." That is not what happened to Chapman. Between the time his play closed off-Broadway and opened on, Chapman had to do the cocktail party circuit, wooing backers. He and Coxe had to rewrite the play several times to suit other people's preferences. All this was distasteful to him and is one reason why he calls himself an "ex-playwright...
...blandly announced that they "had considered and accepted General Thi's application for a vacation." At week's end, though Buddhists demonstrated in Hue and Danang, the ousted soldier had failed to rouse a successful revolt in protest. "This may go down in history," said one U.S. wag in the capital, "as the Saigon Thi Party, because they got away with dumping...
...still out with a pulled muscle in his thigh; Catcher Elston Howard, his right arm in a cast, was earning his keep as a TV announcer. Star Pitcher Whitey Ford (1964 record: 17-6) lost his fourth straight game and was banished briefly to the bullpen-prompting one wag to remark, "This year, the bullpen is mightier than the Ford." And all this while, Al Lopez's White Sox were winning nine out of eleven and leading the American League by two full games...
...apprentice during the Middle Ages." The resulting "college education syndrome" puts immense pressures on teenagers. Some kids occasionally rise at 3 a.m. to study-one Washington mother has to forbid her girls to get up before 6. And so eager are kids to find colleges that when a wag at New Canaan High posted an invitation for interviews with the admissions officer of "Whasamatta College," five students signed...
...halt a car and order the driver to take aboard a wholesome-looking stoppeur. Neatness counts, since it denotes respectability; so does a pair of knobby knees (male), because Germans like outdoorsiness. The thumb is a U.S. import; native custom dictates an erect forearm and a vigorous loose-wristed wag of the hand. One student last summer became king of the Autobahnen by carrying a sign that said: I KNOW A THOUSAND JOKES...