Word: wags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thoughtfully, Pressagent Little got more specific about his product: "A friend in Kentucky wrote that he was sending along an old crow which had been around for 125 years. When the expressmen delivered the package, it contained a bottle of an oldtime beverage called Old Crow. Another wag offered to ship me, prepaid, an elderly female relative by marriage . . . However, what I am looking for are authenticated very old crows ... I would deeply appreciate any help from you or your readers." He signed his name and address, but not his occupation...
...driving rain, Magsaysay was whisked through bamboo forests into Pampanga province, the last region of the islands where the Huks are still strong. A limousine with six bodyguards led the way; a jeepload of Manila police guarded the rear. Peasants, alerted that Magsaysay (pronounced wag-sigh-sigh) was coming, waved and grinned from beneath their huge dripping salakots (hats). As the convoy sloshed into Manalin, a public address system blared the catchy Magsaysay Mambo: "Mambo, Mambo, Magsaysay,/ Our democracy will die,/ If there is no Magsaysay...
LOST TRAILS, LOST CITIES (332 pp.)-Colonel P. H. Fawcett-Funk & Wag-nails...
...commanding officer of the WAG, Mrs. Hobby tolerated no Jim Crow in training the first class of WAC officers. In fact it was actually through this laudable policy that she becomes the first of the "top brass" to integrate by order...
Across the sea of white shirts and sun-brown faces floated the name of 45-year-old Ramon Magsaysay (pronounced wag-sigh-sigh), the fast-rising, Huk-fighting phenomenon who resigned as Secretary of Defense and quit President Elpidio Quirino's Liberal Party six weeks ago to join the Nacionalistas and wage war on Liberal corruption. Young businessmen, industrialists and army officers, and Filipino housewives-most of them political amateurs with the same kind of contagious enthusiasm as the amateurs for Ike and Stevenson-pitched in with U.S.-style posters and buttons and such slogans as "I sigh...