Word: caponized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alas for the poor Senate anti-rackets committee when Teamster Vice President James Hoffa "swaggered into the McClellan hearing like a crowing cock into a coop of capons." The illusion is perfect, with the committee certainly discovering its impotence in the fray, but we'll bet our bottom forceps that Hoffa joins the capon ranks in no time. New Capon Hoffa, certainly economically "fattened for the table" (Webster), will join the docile when the committee leaves the roost for the chopping block...
...American Capon Producers Association...
Traditionally weak on opposing courts, Princeton has been held back this season, by poor "shooting, a lacklustre defense, and the fact that several football men, notably George Sella, have not yet made a successful transition from turf to floor. Coach Cappy Capon has a short team--Bernia Adams at 6-4 is about his only tall man--which is in the habit of fouling out early, leaving Capon without five capably players...