Word: wagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that they don't register) to translate any combination of digits into an easily remembered phrase. Thus the number of the CIA-351-1100-becomes AH ME, CUBA BAY, OY. The New Yorker who wants to call A.T. & T. to complain about all-digit dialing dials GO WAG A WET YOYO...
When a Lampyris female does not find a mate promptly, says Dr. Schaller, she begins to wag her abdomen. As time passes, her little belly dance becomes more frantic. Dr. Schaller rigged his dummies for vigorous wagging, and they had outstanding success in attracting mates. Lampyris noctiluca, he is convinced, has a highly selective optical system for locating willing females...
...took off her tennis shoes and got her hair cut and took a bath, she'd be all right." When will he announce his presidential intentions? "I can't give you any timetable. I would much prefer to stay in the Senate, where my tongue can wag more than in the redecorated White House. Jackie's got it ready for me -it's got an 18th century...
...neither pretty nor witty, though unmistakably a virgin. He, at 42, was both wag and scalawag, who saw to it that his supposedly torrid love life was the talk of literary London. She was rich and a lady, and loathed the limelight. He was a Socialist and no gentleman, and feasted on celebrity. It seemed on all counts an improbable match; yet by Shavian standards it had a certain compelling illogic. As it turned out, the marriage of George Bernard Shaw and Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend lasted 45 years and was, by any measure, a fairly successful...
...played in the honky-tonks and brothels of Sedalia at the turn of the century, ragtime would have won neither sponsors nor the approval of Newton Minow. A derivative of the Negro spiritual, it opposed a syncopated right hand to a marching bass, and it talked, as one wag observed, of the six days of the week the spirituals ignored...