Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tractor. Plywood and lumber mills at Shelton, 18 miles away, had bought every stick they could deliver, at OPA prices: $23 a thousand for mill logs, $35 for top-grade plywood "peelers.''* They brought in one scorched, dead Douglas fir which measured 9½ feet at the butt, was 210 feet long, sold...
...years on the U.S. payroll he kept the list loaded with members of his family. He was imperious: "Tell those butt-heads we will assemble tomorrow morning" was his way of summoning fellow Senators to a meeting of his Agriculture Committee. He once formulated his economic, social and political thinking in one sentence: "Gentlemen, we are right in the smack-dab middle of a jackass...
...almost smothered under several layers of clothing. Before the end of his first year he is forced to learn to sit stiffly on his haunches. Other restraints result from the flimsy construction of Japanese houses: when a baby begins to crawl, he is held back lest he butt through the paper walls or burn himself in the charcoal fire...
...G.I.s were slow to reciprocate the Pyle devotion. In the field Ernie, ab normally sensitive to cold, wraps his skin ny frame in as many thicknesses of non descript clothes as he can lay hands on, makes himself look like a ready-made butt for jokes. At first the G.I.s plagued the funny-looking little man unmercifully, "scrounging" (i.e., swiping) his blankets and water, knocking off his helmet to reveal the wad of toilet paper always kept there, ridiculing his passion for orderliness and his perpetual puttering, pouncing on him in howling droves when he modestly retired behind a bush...
Affront to Culture. Although the announcer did not name the butt of his epithet, the Press-Propaganda office promptly hit Belgrano with a 48-hour advertising suspension for "expressions [which] constituted an affront to the nation's culture.and violated the fundamental principles of broadcasting, which today is the greatest vehicle for the diffusion of spiritual, social and moral culture." By the time Colonel Peron could return and lift the suspension, it had cost Belgrano $2,000 worth of advertising time...