Word: basketeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the first balloon was ready, lean Jean Boesmans, the Dutch entry, and his wife stepped into the basket. As 40 gallant soldiers of the Republic clung fast to its ropes, Boesmans launched into a flowery speech in praise of French sportsmanship. Just then the band struck up the Dutch National Anthem. "Tell the music to shut up," shouted Boesmans. "Lâchez tout!" (let it go) roared the crowd. Promptly the soldiers dropped the ropes and Boesmans soared aloft, while the crowd shouted: "Vive la Hollande...
Ceiling of Zeros. With their heads in a spiral nebula of billions, Congressmen were treated to a floor show which brought the question of budgets down to its simplest terms. Into the House chamber walked California's Helen Gahagan Douglas with a shopping basket which she toted right up to the microphone. She had used the same shopping list last June, when the items in the basket totaled $10. Now, in a horrifying crescendo, she rattled off the post-OPA increases: butter, from 65? to 82?; eggs, 53? to 69?; two pounds of pork chops ("the poor...
...emphasis of advertising. After 17 prosperous years of broadcasting commercials, the station still gets along with a one-man sales department. Says Manager Outler: "If you gain the confidence of your community, all you need in your sales department is a wide transom over the door and a big basket under the transom...
Recently Smokey made for the lunch basket of Angler Richard Delaney, and Delaney tried to fend him off. Smokey promptly pushed the fisherman into the river. Delaney sued, and last week an Evesham judge awarded him ?37 75 damages. But Evesham's mayor and corporation were loyal to the end. "Why should we sack Smokey?" they said. "He's a nice old fellow...
...Varsity wasn't up to its Columbia peak, but it didn't have to be. Complete Crimson mastery of both backboards proved a decisive factor in the victory, as the highly-touted Jack Colberg, Penn center, was obscured by Hauptfuhrer and colleagues underneath the basket...