Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Archeologist Benjamin Dean Meritt is deciphering 6,000 pre-Christian Greek inscriptions. Said suave, barrel-chested North Carolinian Meritt: "Some are right interesting." For 1945 publication, he and Assistant, W. Kendrick Pritchett (now in the Army) have planned a who's who of some 30,000 Athenians mentioned in Meritt's collected inscriptions. Meritt is proud of U.S. archeology, says the long-dominant German variety has declined...
When Warren was first built it stood facing the Yard, where the Harvard Union is today. At the erection of the Union, however, it was moved lock, stock, and barrel to its present position...
Tony Galento, the boxer who walks like a beer barrel, was fined $60 in Orange, N.J., for pushing his right at a cop. The heavyweight saloonkeeper had refused to drop a nickel in a parking meter (and refused to stop shadow-boxing in court...
...rough & tumble political arena of the U.S. He likes America, Americans and things American-automobiles, cigarets, architecture, movies, industry, government. He is a devotee of sports, an ardent rooter at Turkish soccer games. Unlike most European statesmen, he is approachable, informal, hearty and direct. He likes the cracker-barrel politics which, in Turkey, take place at small, informal dinners. A U.S. career diplomat of many years standing in Ankara said of him once: "He is more like an American politician than anyone else in European governments...
...Stubby-legged, barrel-bellied Marshal Ugo Cavallero, who succeeded Badoglio in Greece, was dismissed after Tripoli fell. Before the war he accumulated a fortune while he was Under Secretary in the War Ministry...