Word: batch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everyone did. Molly was duly sworn and forthwith broke out a batch of champagne. As the ladies sipped, the new officer let them in on a secret-she felt she was too fat and had decided to diet off her "Christmas blubber" before being measured for a uniform. But this, it became obvious, was only a technical delay. Her maid immediately began answering the telephone with the words: "Colonel Thayer's residence...
Push & Pull. There was plenty to beat a gong about. Chrysler had spent $50 million retooling for its new cars, and they contained the greatest batch of engineering changes in years...
Taking the same old pot from Shakespeare's rack, British Novelist Rumer Godden has cooked up a fresh batch of literature in it. As readers of her earlier novels (Black Narcissus, A Candle for St. Jude) may expect, the Godden brew is not much more than cambric tea, and though its prose has a refreshing bouquet and its flavor of idyl is cut by lemon slices of irony, the book is still a Tempest in a teapot. Author Godden gracefully recognizes the fact by calling her novel not a Tempest but A Breath...
...Much? As one trophy of his pace, Bee now nurses a permanent batch of milk-fed ulcers. But nothing in the world, he likes to think, could persuade him to slow down or give up one of his jobs. He gets too much satisfaction out of his multiple roles...
...desperation, Fred bought a batch of 28 books at a sale for 8s., cleaned them up and hawked some of them around the second-hand shops in a sack. At day's end, Bookseller Bason had made enough profit (15s. 8d.) to convince him that a load of second-hand books and some stout burlap were all a true bookworm needed to "make a living and be free...