Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...payoffs to retiring employees have jumped sharply. Sample payoff last year: a $4,600-a-year clerk who had contributed $3,561 to the fund in 34 years got $95,626. The technical drawback to the plan is that most of the employees' pension eggs are in one basket. But under the circumstances, Sears and its employees are not worried: they do not know where they could find a more productive basket...
...this bit of wisdom, the reader has to swallow the whole Shulman shovelful of old wheezes, soggy puns, strained parodies and cheap leers at the female form, a mixture that might be the waste from S. J. Perelman's basket. Sample: "I was going down to Florida anyhow," hums the rich girl. "There's some alligators down there making...
...Deacons' sparkplug. Small for a basketball player, he keeps constantly under the feet of opposing giants and is too fast to be brushed off. Offensively, Pankey is one of the League's sharpest shooters. He won the first Kirkland-Lowell game with a last second 20-foot basket...
Besides scoring the basket that put the Prexies ahead, Buchanan played a good all-around game, especially under the boards. Forward Al Blackburn was high scorer for Timothy Dwight with 14 points, and Bob Mossman scored eight, mostly on set shots from the corner...
Obsessed by a strange type of affection, the omniscient Francis gives information about Japanese troops to second lieutenant O'Connor. When O'Connor becomes a hero and tries to share the credit with Francis, the lieutenant is gently hustled off to the psycho ward to weave baskets. A major-general, a colonel, some war correspondents and a large part of the audience also become candidates for the basket-weaving ward during the course of the picture...