Word: posterior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That suave, ivy league fraternity gentleman who pounds on your door Monday night may be pounding on your posterior before long.... Ask him if his is one of the large number of houses that are transformed into a prehistoric cave during that week. Let him tell you about the activities "which develop brotherhood." Let him tell you about the raw eggs that will be dropped into your mouth, about the pigly, nude races you will have, about the days you will be forced to remain awake...
...proved to be the occipital (posterior) bone of a human skull, and its position in a stratum containing crude flint hand axes and the bones of long-extinct animals made it exciting news in anthropological circles. Marston soon found a second bone (left parietal) which fitted the first bone perfectly. The two bones were enough to give some idea of an extremely ancient kind of man who lived along the Thames about 250,000 years ago, before the last of the great glaciers crept over England...
...money-maker for a dollar skilled Oscar candidate a woman in the back row insight for Broadway one eyed cameraman grandeur bad translation not since the Outlaw depth heavy a wounded swan real frantic a lead baloon disturbing stiff go over big in Boston gripping obscure simple guts pity posterior firey good try shifty smashing mother laughed Liberace smile tense inconsistent if I had a date climactic good music but Mr. Magoo genius even with Marilyn townies applauded
...vindictive, Columnist Walter Winchell replied in a counterattack that went on for months. In the 200-odd dailies that carry his column, and over his Sunday-night radio-TV broadcast, Winchell called the Post everything from a "pinko-stinko sheet" and the "New York Ivan" to the "New York Posterior," the "New York Pravda" and the "Compost." He also suggested that the Post's staff was riddled with subversives. For Post Editor James A. Wechsler he had a separate set of Winchellisms, e.g., "Cherry Coke Wexla," "James Jake Ivan Wechsler," "New York Post's General Pinko," and "Pinko...
...four-year-old with a posterior no larger than the palm of an irate parent's hand is rapidly becoming the nation's most popular towhead. As a comic-strip character, Dennis the Menace is practically a member of the family for the readers of 200 U.S. newspapers. But this little one-man gang has also become something of a sensation between book covers. Dennis the Menace, published last September, has already sold close to 140,000 copies. Even a publisher could guess the sequel to that: More Dennis the Menace...