Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walked resolutely forward, placed his body on the execution platform. As dawn came to Cantho cemetery, the blade swished down and General Ba Cut's head rolled into one basket, his body into another...
...Echo. "A winner," said the London Evening News. Just Looking. Once a month since then, Report has ranged the U.S. scene. One report managed to tell without bragging how the smog was licked in Pittsburgh. How America Shops showed a husband popping bottles into his wife's shopping basket on their way around a supermarket, another woman wandering interminably, "just looking," until she can no longer contain herself and launches into a frenzy of impulse buying. A Report on a fire in the Lutheran church in Sayville, Long Island, and the efforts of the local citizens to rebuild...
...what made it possible was the fact that the bill itself was as full of leaks as a wicker basket. Not to go into effect for a year, it provides only mild penalties-six months in jail or a maximum $27 fine -for "soliciting openly in public ... or embracing or seizing a prospective partner." On procurers, who roam the Japanese countryside offering poverty-stricken farmers cash loans in return for the indentured services of their daughters, penalties were tougher: up to three years in prison or a maximum $277 fine.*Toughest of all are the penalties on bordello mama-sans...
...vote. Carloads of voters were hauled to the polls after a brief stopover to check their enrollment at a straw-thatched party field headquarters conveniently located near by, and when the votes were cast, they were whisked back again to headquarters for a cooling drink and sometimes a basket lunch...
...Power Elite Sociologist C. (for Charles) Wright Mills of Columbia University warns, in effect, that the U.S. is well on its way to hell in a hand basket. Its leaders are morally bankrupt ("America is indeed without leaders"); its people are whipped around by TV and public-relations types and have almost nothing to do with deciding their political fate. Its rich are vulgar and mindless, its poor too gutless to do anything about their condition; its labor leaders impotent fellows and "government-made men." U.S. generals and admirals are "warlords" who pursue their dreadful projects in the mazes...