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Word: sock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...football [is] becoming more savage, vicious and dangerous each season . . . leading to a brutalization of players and spectators alike." As a prime example of capitalist brutality at work, Low recalled the cheer of his own Brooklyn high school (Brooklyn Technical): "Ram 'em, bam 'em, rock 'em, sock 'em, hit 'em hard, hit 'em low, c'mon Tech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Signals Off | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

When Carmichsel arrived, he grabbed a glass of beer, climbed up on a table, and started telling gags amid shouts of "sock it to 'em, Hoagy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoagy Carmichael Plays | 11/21/1950 | See Source »

...noticeable damage had been done to any to the Harvard buildings, Cunningham revealed. "There were the usual chalked walls, and a new saying, Sock it to 'em', appeared several times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Halloween Came, Went Quietly in Square | 11/1/1950 | See Source »

...long enough to falsify it. Montalban's anxieties are magically dispelled by a happy ending as familiar as Boxing Promoter Lionel Barrymore 's grumpiness. Though Right Cross's ring scenes are pretty well staged, it is a boxing picture with too much yatata and not enough sock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 30, 1950 | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

Although we respect our new coach's enthusiasm in suggesting "sock it to 'om," as the moral booster for the school and the team, we feel that the above is a much more realistic approach to the problem. David G. Black '53 Mark L. Goodman '53 Robert Rosenman '53 John Stadler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cheerless Cheerleaders | 10/17/1950 | See Source »

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