Word: jog
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...defensively. "Margaret," he said, "don't tell me you were shortchanged! I'll cry." She had not been cheated, but a bag of pecans was so poorly marked that the checker had to look up the price. John examined the bag and allowed he would have to jog someone about those markings...
...veterans of the Valpey elevens, Rocky Stone and Hal Moffie, showed up for practice--strictly for a look-see. After watching the squad jog through several wind sprints, Moffie remarked that the team looked in better physical shape than any recent Harvard eleven...
...impression that Orley Farm is all about "cream-cheeses, pigs with small bones, wheat sown in drills, or artificial manure." As roomy as a barracks, as thickly populated as a small village, Orley Farm is one of the least bucolic, least loose-jointed of all his placid, jog-trotting accounts of life in the quiet Victorian countryside...
Neither Daddy nor Mammy. The Senate had approached the matter grudgingly. Majority Leader Scott Lucas, doggedly vowing to make good on Harry Truman's civil rights program, had made FEPC the next order of business, had then let an easygoing Southern filibuster jog along for most of two weeks. The debate had had its high & low points...
...says Dr. Benioff, there was a great burst of earthquakes that lasted three years.* This period produced a tall jog on Dr. Benioff's chart. Since then the jogs have been smaller. Today the earth is having continual, mild earthquake activity. This means in Dr. Benioff's theory that the strain in the crust is being released as fast as it is generated. By the same reasoning, a period of no earthquake activity ought to be followed by a proportionately violent flare...