Word: scattered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scatter-Gun. Meriweather lived in a cellar until he developed a "skyscraper shadow complexion," and he dieted rigorously on Martinis, barbiturates and tongue-on-rye. Thus able to pass as a Northerner, Ol´ Fearless invaded Manhattan. His grim findings: gangsters, muggings, class warfare, prejudice, "rapine and horrible death ... at every turnstile...
...Administration's $1.45 billion military-aid program was a queer-looking weapon; not even an expert could tell whether it was designed to scatter birdshot or shoot bear. That was the sensible objection raised to it by many Congressmen who could not be dismissed as isolationists. As drawn, the bill would give Harry Truman authority to send U.S. arms to any nation in the world-or even to any political faction in any nation...
...chief's wife sets me a task, I would do it. But if a white woman says, 'Chop wood!', I would answer, 'How much?' " Another said: "Nobody can cast fire among the people he loves. If you bring this woman, the tribe will scatter and [pointing to a cattle stockade] you will be chief of these poles...
Compared to the largesse that soda-pop barons, pearl merchants and encyclopedia publishers scatter for works of art, the prizes from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute are penny ante stuff. First prize at the Carnegie amounts to only $1,500, but it is still the most honorable award of the season...
Noting a random scatter round the mean...