Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nonch (not-nice) subjects. To go to bed with a girl was to burlap her, because one day in the 1890s someone walked into the general store, found no clerk, checked the storeroom and found him making love to a young lady on a pile of sacks. The word caught on, although it got competition from ricky-chow, an onomatopoeic description of the twanging bedsprings in the Boonville Hotel's honeymoon suite...
...disaster just to report baldly, so they would say "That frigid perel [cold rain, which resembles little pearls] made many white spots [dead lambs]. There'll be nemer croppies [no more sheep, which crop the grass] come boche season [boche, meaning deer, is derived from a Pomo word...
Marooned was the word for Actress Ann-Margret and her husband Roger Smith, after torrential West Coast rains sent tons of mud pouring down onto their Beverly Hills driveway...
...Spinelli's arrest did not have "probable cause" to do so. The warrant, said the court, should have contained both more detail on what led the informant to conclude that the phones were for bet taking, and some support for the FBI claim that the informant's word could be trusted. The informant's "meager report," said Justice John Harlan for the majority, "could easily have been obtained from an offhand remark heard at a neighborhood bar." Nor, said the court, does the FBI agent's report make up for the shortcomings in the informant...
Justices Hugo Black and Abe Fortas, who are both regarded as among the court's libertarians, strongly opposed the decision. Fortas argued that the FBI agent's affidavit and the informant's word together were sufficient to establish "probable cause." From the bench, Black angrily attacked his colleagues for trying to supervise local magistrates "from a thousand miles away." Justice Byron White said that he was voting with the majority to avoid a deadlocked court (Justice Thurgood Marshall had abstained). Declaring himself confused by the majority opinion, White called for "fullscale reconsideration" of the precedents...