Word: pluckings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Yeah, Man." In three years, the workers became a part of almost every boy's life-Jerry, who once had to be talked out of blowing up the Sabers with a hand grenade; Pluck, who smoked reefers ("When you are high you can look across the way, which is littered with garbage cans, and everything looks fine"); and Wilfred the truant ("If I could go regular-like for a week, then I'd go all the time, but I just can't go that week...
...Pluck from your nostrils every hair...
...main defects in the Harvard line are defects which the finest coaching in the world cannot remedy--lack of depth and lack of speed. No one can pluck 210-pound ten-second tackles out of thin air, and no one can make show men run fast...
...juiciest plums a young writer can pluck is the $10,000 Harper Bros, novel prize, won this year...
...juiciest plums a young writer can pluck is the $10,000 that Harper & Bros, gives away every two years to the winner of its novel contest. For 1950 the lucky man is a 27-year-old South Carolinian, Max Steele, whose Debby was chosen by a jury of knowing hands: Short Story Writer Katherine Anne Porter, Novelist Glenway Wescott, and San Francisco Chronicle Critic Joseph Henry Jackson. A few of the Harper prizewinners (Wescott's The Grandmothers and Paul Horgan's The Fault of Angels) were widely and deservedly cheered, but the 1950 winner is not in their...