Word: holing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...firemen slide down to reach the first floor. Built of shiny brass, and hung from a steel framework the slide poles have aluminum shutters which open when a man's weight is put on the pole and close again when he lets go. The shutters cover up the hole through which the man must slide and prevent the usual draft which rushes up the open holes...
They are to be fired in batteries of four, four men being in one large hole, with the cannon set flush with the ground. In a nearby ditch lies the officer commanding, who gives the word to fire, and who observes through field glasses the dust kicked up by the missiles on first bounce...
...limb of a tree. The end was broken. Twenty feet below were the King's broken glasses and his cap. There were traces of blood on the rocks. At the foot of the cliff lay the body of Albert. He was quite dead. There was a great hole in the back of his skull...
...almost landed the job, too," crowed Mrs. Whittemore, wife of a Puerto Rican Federal Land Bank director. "Made a great play for it, and all the time I had an ace in the hole. Yeah. What I really wanted, you see, was this collectorship. It's among the three or four best collectorships there are. Pays $6,500 a year. You have a boat...
...Governor Winship, but she was going to give him "a look-over,'' was sure that they would "get along." "That's me all the time. I'm the little girl who made good. Always got an ace in the hole. And maybe the next time I come here after the governorship I'll have my aces back to back...