Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stocky little U.S. first lieutenant checked over his flight papers and manifest, then turned to leave. He zipped up his blue nylon flight jacket and cracked, "One more milk run." It was an old phrase that was being heard more & more. He clamped a cold and soggy cigar butt between his teeth, and strode out across the apron toward his big, twin-boom C-119 Flying Box Car for another round trip to Japan. There was no telling how many more he would make...
Crimson Captain Wait Greeley bounced on off the post at 2.35 for the Crimson's only seal. Pension butt up Broughout the second period, with some magnificent flurries and missed chances in front of both goals...
...Answer. Part of Arkansas' economic growth was a natural result of the postwar boom. But a great deal of it was due to the energy of Ham Moses and the Arkansas Economic Council and community development program which he inspired. Until recently, Arkansas was especially celebrated as a butt for bad jokes by Northerners. In 1944, Ham Moses went to New York to sell $35 million worth of Arkansas Power & Light bonds, was laughed out of many a Wall Street office. He finally sold the bonds, but, he said: "Everybody thought we were just a state of hillbillies...
...Jeezus," she breathed. "I wish I had a butt...
...commission to "study the race situation" in South Africa. France, Britain and half a dozen others objected, citing Article 2. But the ayes had it, 35-2. Not voting: 22 nations, including the U.S., which "deplores" South Africa's racism, but does not want the U.N. to butt in. Prime Minister Daniel Malan's huffy reaction: a U.N. commission will not be allowed to set foot in South Africa...