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(con. mid-1950s) This Boy’s Life 78: ‘He’s definitely in pain,’ [the school nurse] told him. ‘He’s faking it,’ the vice-principal said [...] I began to say something [. . .] but the vice-principal wasn’t having any.at not having any, phr.
(con. mid-1950s) This Boy’s Life 78: ‘He’s definitely in pain,’ [the school nurse] told him. ‘He’s faking it,’ the vice-principal said [...] I began to say something [. . .] but the vice-principal wasn’t having any. (con. mid-1950s) This Boy’s Life 130: It had been a loose society of beery guys who liked to plink at cans, but that changed .at beery (adj.) under beer, n.
(con. mid-1950s) This Boy’s Life 108: He was bigger than me, especially around the middle, but I factored out this weight as blubbe.at blubber, n.2
(con. mid-1950s) This Boy’s Life 43: At five o’clock we turned on the television and watched The Mickey Mouse Club. It was understood that we were all holding a giant bone for Annette [Funicello, star of the ‘Mousketeers’].at hold a bone for (v.) under bone, n.1
(con. mid-1950s) This Boy’s Life 100: Dad says you better get a move on, or else. Dad says hustle your buns, or else.at buns, n.
(con. mid-1950s) This Boy’s Life 105: He said the stupid cornpones had no idea what it [i.e. a piano] was worth.at cornpone (adj.) under corn, n.1
This Boy’s Life 189: I was lying on my back with Huff kneeling on me, slapping my cheeks. He said, ‘Speak to me, dicklick’.at dicklick, n.
(con. mid-1950s) This Boy’s Life 113: ‘That was your fault,’ Dwight told me. ‘You must have had your guard down. There’s no excuse for getting dry-gulched’.at dry gulch (v.) under dry, adj.1
(con. mid-1950s) This Boy’s Life 97: [W]hen Dwight bestirred himself to question her she fed him fat lies that he swallowed without a murmur.at fat, adj.
This Boy’s Life 197: Only then did I slow down and look behind me. [...] She wasn’t there. I had lost her.at lose, v.
This Boy’s Life 237: Chuck got drunk almost every night. [...] In the morning he would ask me what he’d done the night before. [...] I played along and told him how wiped he’d been .at wiped out, adj.
This Boy’s Life 263: He’d given Chuck an ultimatum: Get with the program or else .at with the program (adj.) under program, n.
(con. mid-1950s) This Boy’s Life 114: I came over to him and in this little scaredy-cat voice I say, Excuse me, what’s the problem? at scaredy-cat (n.) under scare, n.
(con. mid-1950s) This Boy’s Life 127: Bobby had a very soft voice, and this made what he said seem confidential, even a little shady .at shady, adj.
(con. mid-1950s) This Boy’s Life 115: [H]is boy Jack had hung a real shiner on the Gayle kid .at shiner, n.1
(con. mid-1950s) This Boy’s Life 130: [A]fter the club got smeared by a couple of other clubs the old members either got serious themselves or dropped out. at smear, v.
(con. mid-1950s) This Boy’s Life 132: Breathe in, breathe out, squeeze off .at squeeze off (v.) under squeeze, v.
(con. mid-1950s) This Boy’s Life 108: He was bigger than me, especially around the middle, but I factored out this weight as blubbe.at take, v.
This Boy’s Life 43: But it wasn’t really our looks that made us uncool. Coolness did not demand anything as obvious as that. Like chess or music, coolness claimed its own out of some mysterious impulse of recognition. We had been claimed by uncoolness.at uncool, adj.
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