Word: binned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First prize went to Pipe-Major Robert Reid, a tightly muscled Glasgow bagpipe-maker and veteran of two wars. Said he: "I would never have played the pipes if it hadna bin for ma father, but he was a stern mon and kept me to it ever since I was six years old." Pipe-Major Reid's twelve-year-old son is doing very well on the chanter, a pipe without the bag-but, said Reid, "he winna take...
...cree-ay-ter of the gratest comical stripp in all cree-ay-shun, naimly 'Peerless Fosdick,' who is mah ideel. . . . Lately, other comical stripp cree-ay-ters bin cree-ay-tin even more horibul cree-ay-shuns than yo Like ladys wif gravel in thar hare, mudd in thar eyes an who smells badd. Natcherly, the Americun public in-joys this vurry much. . . . Go to it, Gooch, whomp up a lady that is so itchy, so shakey, so smelly, an so onbarubbly disgustin thet once agin yo will be the king of the funny page...
Despite McNarney's optimistic estimate, the U.S. could hardly help without cutting its own 1,550 calories. The French zone was at the bottom of its flour bin. The Russians pointedly hinted that everything was all right in their zone; actually, they might soon be facing serious shortage themselves. The food crisis spurred hopes of a zoneless four-power administration of Germany...
Clark's Arab driver explained to the natives that the jeep was the offspring of the truck that followed with Clark's luggage. Yemenites, who understand heredity, understood that; they have been "electing" members of one family as their rulers since 897 A.D. The latest, Imam Yahya bin Mohamed bin Hamid el Din (76), had asked Clark to come up from Aden, where he is U.S. consul, to arrange for regular diplomatic relations between the two nations...
...London Polish Government fell into History's dust bin, Mikolajczyk returned to Poland as Vice Premier and Minister of Agriculture. He has ranged indefatigably from Warsaw up & down the countryside, busier with building up his political strength than with his administrative...