Word: cribbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor rose. His wife's body lay on the living-room pulldown bed. Open on a nearby chair was a mystery novel entitled Dead Sure. His daughter Carol lay dead in her crib. The doctor walked into the bathroom, picked up a rifle and shot himself through the heart...
...will be working twice as hard to develop new gadgets for the whole house. And some day Betty Furness might appear on color TV to say: "Now I want to show you the toaster that butters the bread, the range that washes the pans, and this wonderful electrically-powered crib that rocks the baby back to sleep if he cries...
Would you help us, too? When your readers send their Christmas cards this year, why not Send one showing the crib at Bethlehem? When they decorate their tree they could set up a crib under it. Then when Christmas Day comes, they can go to church...
...which are set at such an angle that no one has much trouble peeking over his neighbor's shoulder. This should scare no one. If the Registrar assigns to Burr only courses which deal in imprecise, general topics, unlike Calculus or Physics, no examgoer will have time enough to crib anything worth the risk involved...
...took off from there, trumpeting that the Republicans had voted down a bill to provide Government warehouse space. "If the corn farmers had stopped to think, they'd have known that they never did put their corn in Government warehouses," said Hope. "They usually put it in a crib at home and got a loan on it ... It was one of the biggest political hoaxes in history." There was, in fact, some scratching for storage space, but the hue & cry was exaggerated, and the Democrats harvested many a farmer's vote with the fear technique...