Word: barreled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City His Turn In the Barrel...
...Army, all on active duty), and the world did not stand mournfully weeping because I had to eat C rations. Neither will Rosner mourn eternally for the slobs still in the boondocks once he gets his discharge. At the moment, it is simply his turn in the barrel, just as it was for the boys in Korea before him, and for the boys in World War II before them, ad infinitum...
...what spinach is to Popeye. He and Obélix uppercut their foes with such equivalents of "Socko!" as "Tchad" and "Patchoc!" Every page has a brawl, and the puns fly as fast as the fists, whether Astérix and Obélix are smuggling a barrel of the potion into Britannia to aid an ally besieged by the Romans or rescuing Panoramix from the cabbage-eating, goose-stepping Goths...
...hand he tramped through the fields in business suit, grey fedora and dark topcoat. Still, he proved a good shot. In any case, the forests of De Gaulle's Rambouillet chateau are well stocked for just such occasions, and it was a lot like shooting birds in a barrel. Together, the twelve-man party liquidated 263 pheasants...
Also aboard were a barrel of beer and plenty of bottles of assorted other spirits. "If I have a craze for anything -sorry if this sounds bad-it's generally drink," confesses Chichester. "I know pretty well at the outset whether it's going to be a rum voyage, a gin voyage or a Mackeson [beer] voyage...