Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cream-colored stone walls of Castel Gandolfo, his summer residence 15 miles southeast of Rome, 200 newsmen gathered for the courtyard deathwatch. United Press International rented a room on the square and dickered with a nun for the use of her telephone; the Associated Press signed up a village butcher's phone; reporters lounged in their cars or on cots and sleeping bags, drinking Cokes, shaving in the fountain. Rome's Italia news agency, mistaking a fluttering Gandolfo curtain for a prearranged, prepaid signal of the Pope's passing, flashed the news-16 hours premature-that...
...line, which returned almost intact from last year's team, which beat the Crimson 6 to 2. Howard Rockett, an All-Ivy selection in 1957, will start at center forward, while the rest of the line will be made up of Bob Davis, Ray Schroth, George Simonf, and McBee Butcher...
...tankers of the future may be giant descendants of sausage skins. Two years ago Engineering Professor William Rede Hawthorne of Britain's Cambridge University got empty sausage skins from his butcher, filled them with alcohol, tied the ends and towed them in the laboratory's wave tank. The alcohol sausages rode the waves so valiantly that he got financial backing from Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd. to build and test good-sized flexible barges...
...sergeant who made chopped herring out of Frank Sinatra. The picture was a smash, and so was Ernie. He got other parts, but nothing really big till a couple of producers came along, name of Hecht and Lancaster, who wanted to do a picture about a fat Italian butcher boy -a real sweet kid, but lonesome. Ernie read for the part, and he was in. This guy Ernie did not just play Marty; he was Marty, sitting around the corner saloon with his cronies, drinking beer and saying: "So waddayawanna do tonight...
...little" magazines have fallen on thin times. Published in Paris attics or Greenwich Village cellars, printed on butcher paper, and usually as short-lived as May flies, little magazines were the focus and the forum of the experimental '20s, awaited by literati with breathless interest for the latest chapter of James Joyce, the newest obscurity of Ezra Pound, the next outrageous typographical innovation devised by e.e. cummings...