Word: range
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sound truck stood waiting last week, its horns pointed directly at the church. "It's the only way to get a crowd to listen to a speech these days," explained the politician in charge. "Catch them coming home from Mass." Finally the church bell rang, and a small crowd-oldsters and children mostly, the young adults having sped by on their bicycles-gathered to hear the candidate for the grand, if ornamental, job of President of the Republic of Ireland. Portly General Sean MacEoin, 65, the "Blacksmith of Ballinalee," the man who in the Great Trouble "refused to have...
...bighearted and let him take a two-week vacation with pay. So Eddie piled the wife and kid in his '53 Chevy and headed for a place called Deep Springs, where there were some nice cabins, not too expensive. But after a couple of days, the boss rang up and told him he would have to come back right away. The missus was good and sore and the boy was heartbroken, but Eddie went. "I don't have a college education," was the way he figured it. "I got to be dependable...
Communist Party Boss Bias Roca blasted the sugar workers in the Red newspaper Hoy for "brutally antidemocratic methods." The sugar workers answered Bias Roca by voting to censure Hoy for its "distorted, calumnious and counterrevolutionary reports." Shouts of "Burn Hoy !" rang through the hall, and a cordon of cops had to be sent to protect its plant for 24 hours...
Needed: Deodorants. Lipton describes the ectoplasmic entrance of one of his pals: "The doorbell rang again, and it was Itchy Gelden, peering in, fidgeting and scratching his crotch. 'Like I don't want to bug you man, if you're busy . . . Are we gonna blow some poetry, maybe?' . . . He shambled in, mumbling his little high-pitched murmurs, half-words, more for sound than meaning. Itchy scratched because he had no skin; he was open to the world as a turtle without a shell, sensitive to all the world's hurt and all the world...
...Department stores rang up 8% more sales in the week ending May 2 than last year. Sears, Roebuck alone reported April sales...