Word: slouching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nostalgic group of Hoosiers in Boston caught up with Indiana's favorite songster, clabber-voiced Composer Hoagy (Rockin' Chair) Carmichael, and presented him with a 150-year-old Salem rocking chair. Said Hoagy from a comfortable slouch: "A good rocking chair is like music, sort of has euphony. It takes no effort to make it rock...
...else-even to the horselike galloping which had become as de rigueur among seven-year-old girls (who also whinnied occasionally) as the slouch among debutantes of the '20s-they were faithful to their hero, the clear-eyed Hopalong. Black Hopalong Cassidy shirts and Hopalong Cassidy pants were simple necessities; the more fashionable put on Hopalong Cassidy pajamas to sleep in a Hopalong Cassidy bed, had Hopalong Cassidy wallpaper (which outsold every design in the U.S. this year), ate Hopalong Cassidy cookies and peanut butter and rode a Hopalong Cassidy bicycle (which has handle bars shaped like steer horns...
...quiet, almost icily cool man with a craggy bald head and an elegant drawing-room slouch, Lovett had long since proved to be as effective with a diplomat or a Congressman as he was with a general or an industrialist. In his new job he could be expected to tighten still further the liaison between State and Defense which had already improved perceptibly since the departure of Louis Johnson...
...casual world of blue jeans and T-shirts, sweaters & skirts, bobby-sox and loafers, of jalopies, motor-scooters, bikes, and a litter of candy-wrappers inside almost every desk. Pupils call each other "meal" or "mope," .tell each other not to be a "squeegie" or a "sizzle." They slouch through the halls, let their legs sprawl out under desks. As for chewing gum, said one teacher, "If I tried to stop them I wouldn't have time for anything else...