Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sheriff Hugh Culbreath was apparently in business with the top underworld boss, "Big Red" Italiano, let his brother run a book right in his office. An accountant for the racketeers in the Cuban bolita (a version of numbers in which small numbered balls are shaken up in a burlap bag) told the committee that one weekly expense item meant money for the sheriff, scornfully designated in the books as "Cabeza de melon" or "Melon-head...
...Bag Men. In big cities, it is the police captains who wax rich. In New York, police officials began resigning in droves when a bookmaker named Harry Gross threatened to sing (TIME, Feb. 5). In Philadelphia, one witness testified that the bag man for Police Captain Vincent Elwell came into the station house each month with his pockets bulging, that the total take amounted to $152,000 a month for the city's 38 districts...
...more scientists learn about "simple" things, the less simple they seem. Water, for instance, was long considered a simple mass of independent molecules jostling one another aimlessly, like marbles in a bag. Then someone noticed that when sound waves pass through water, they lose more energy than they theoretically should. A possible explanation: water molecules may be arranged in groups like small, loose crystals. If there are such "crystals," a sound wave would distort them, thus expending some of its energy...
...sprinted some side by side in the 50, a foot behind Indian captain Jock McIntyre and three inches ahead of Dartmouth's Blaine Boyden. Harvard's four points in this event, coming after Berke's expected win in the 220-yard freestyle, put the meet very nearly in the bag...
...skim through it before he lumbered into President Truman's press-conference room in the old State Department building. There he was joined by Mike DiSalle and his satchel. But before either had a chance to begin, a press officer let the big cat out of the bag: "Mr. DiSalle and Mr. Ching are here to discuss a wage & price order issued today, freezing prices & wages as of yesterday...