Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many if not all of his friends and business associates. It was known to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which had nonetheless cleared Prince for defense contracts. It had even been mentioned in Dun & Bradstreet. Indeed, among those closest to Prince, two of the few who did not know of his record were his wife and 24-year...
...have been crowded to the side of druggists' counters by supposedly more sophisticated products of the antibiotic, antihistamine age. A current favorite is Coricidin (Schering Corp.), combining APC with a small enough dose of the antihistamine Chlor-Trimeton to be sold without prescription. If the customer does not know what he wants, many druggists recommend this. Competitive runners-up: Dristan (Whitehall) and Super-Anahist (Anahist Research Laboratories). Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) has become popular, though its value is largely unproved...
...hired, a former research assistant in a highly specialized field: "Assembling toys isn't intellectually stimulating, but the project is stimulating, and this gives me an incentive for work. It's a sort of therapy, too, to be able to talk freely to the others here and know they'll understand. But most important is the fact that you can get the job honestly. You don't have to lie on the application. In most places, if you answer truthfully you just don't get the job." Said another, a victim of anxiety neurosis: "Here...
...Tudlik, the wise man of the Cape Dorset people). The jet-black raven circling overhead is an evil omen; the sea is the home of the mischievous mermaid-like sea goddess Talluliyuk, who lures the seal away from the hunter. And when the aurora borealis flickers overhead, the Eskimos know that the lights come from the dead playing with seal skulls...
Nobody will ever know who really started it. It may well have been an obscure vaudeville comedian, after Appomattox or after Yorktown, who first used the joke during a desperate split week in Manchester or Dublin. The joke involved someone's trying to rent a cottage with a W.C. (water closet) and being misunderstood by someone else who thought that by some tortured leap of the jokemaker's imagination the letters stood for Wayside Chapel. Thus, the W.C. was nine miles from the house, could be visited only twice a week, etc. - endless possibilities. Little could the unsung...