Word: staggering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month tours of duty will not begin to expire until summer, the Army will start letting them out in March. Reason: Many units (e.g., the 28th, 40th, 43rd, 45th National Guard Divisions) were called up at the same time. The Army cannot send them all home at once, must stagger the discharges over a period of months as it trains draftees to take their place...
Feed box. The Telegraph's comprehensive coverage of racing is zealously accurate. It prints past performances, charts and ratings, perhaps half a million digits each day, a printing task which would stagger most newspapers. But its reports seldom err. Most of them are in a jargon no layman can understand. Example: A line on one of the entries in the second race at Florida's Tropical Park one day last week carried this report on Stormy Ruth, a two-year-old bay filly by Little Beans-Witchwater, by St. James, bred by J. Tucci, trained by M. Fife...
Stomp and Stagger...
Even stated this simply, Buckley's case has a rhetorical appeal, enough so that the loud and intensive counter fire it has drawn from the Yale Daily News and a squad of Yale professors may be peculiarly ineffective. Buckley's thesis has too much superficial logic to stagger perceptibly under a broadside of charges of "fascism" or "medieval scholasticism." It is the framework, the lattice of values beneath Buckley's facile reasoning, that is weak, rotten, and remarkably prone to cave...
...teapots at Wellesley were laid end to end, the results would stagger anyone observing the Waban Wonderland...