Word: aproned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gunman. Cruising the Autobahnen by daylight in Roden's Mercedes, the butcher and his sidekick spotted likely herds of beef cattle grazing near the highways. Returning by night, Roden would cover his well-cut suit with a butcher's apron, work a steer or heifer out of the herd, and stun it with an airgun slug. Then, slaughtering and quartering the animal in less than half an hour, Roden would stow his kill in the trunk and back seat of the Mercedes and race back to Düsseldorf. There in the morning, he offered his customers fresh...
Golf, of course, held first place in the President's plenty-of-play, little-work plans. But between rounds he invaded the Allen kitchen. While a cook stood by, Ike donned an apron, broiled steaks for the boys. Though happily at home at the range, Ike gladly left dishes behind while he directed his main energies toward the El Dorado Country Club course four miles away, a tough par 72 that the President, far off his game, did not come close...
...performed on a stage now being erected in the Lower Common Room of the Harvard Union. The modular stage owned by Dunster House, which was built this year with funds provided by the Ford Foundation, will be the basis of the temporary structure, while elements of the Adams House apron stage. also financed in part by the Ford Foundation, will be used to complete it. The new stage is designed for minimal interference with normal activity in the common room, piano room, and TV room...
...Saunders-Roe's plant at Cowes, the Hovercraft rose 15 in. above the concrete runway. Test Pilot Peter Lamb maneuvered it easily, using a standard aircraft control stick. To dramatize the low friction of its air cushion, Inventor Christopher Cockrell pushed the four-ton craft around the apron by hand. Later the Hovercraft was towed out into the Solent for its first water trial. It rose in a cloud of spray and skimmed easily above the water among yachts and harbor traffic...
...suitcase-packing point of no return, and June elopes with a chorus boy. And just when Mama Rose's star-making dream seems footlight-years away, the Big Break comes for Gypsy-Louise in a Kansas burlesque house, where she begins by taking off Mama's apron strings...