Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...much they succeeded in extorting depended largely on how serious U.S. commanders considered the Chinese threat. In the Pentagon there was a great deal of unmilitary handwringing, accompanied by woebegone predictions that the Chinese intended to barrel right on south to Seoul and perhaps to Pusan. In Korea, however, the view was changing somewhat. The serious U.N. supply difficulties looked less serious when Chinese prisoners reported that their food and ammunition had run low a few days after they had crossed the border...
...managed to save ?10), Fry got a job as secretary to a popular songwriter, and wrote some songs himself which, however, failed to become popular. After a turn as a cabaret entertainer, he moved into an abandoned country rectory, together with a writer friend, 100 books and a large barrel of beef, to write a verse play. They finished the barrel, but not the play...
...effectively in his homemade shining armor. Last week he had the wit to jail hundreds of astoundingly puny hoodlums on the ground that they imperiled the sanctity of the polls. He announced that he had been forced to "take off the gloves." Tammany, he cried, was controlled, lock, stock & barrel, by Big Gambler Frank Costello, and Pecora was nothing but Costello's mouthpiece...
...barges cast off from Nome's weather-beaten docks and tagged southward behind their tugs toward the Bering Sea. Townsmen ashore watched the cargoes of Air Force trucks, black oil drums and crated airplane parts disappear into the blue distance. The Air Force was leaving Nome, lock, stock & barrel. On the plains east of the city, Marks Air Force Base-once the hub of several satellite fields and home for 10.000 World War II troops-was deserted save for its housekeepers and the solitary comings & goings of commercial airliners. The little (pop. 1,852) Alaskan coastal city, just under...
...result was a deceptively artless poetry of common speech. But behind the apparent artlessness was a cracker-barrel Socrates with a sense of humor-a pawky humor that was partly serious when it seemed most irreverent, gently mocking when it seemed most grave...