Word: butts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barbed-wire fence, and squatted on the ground where one of his tractors had just passed. "Everything's good," he said, feeling the soil. "You can tell it's time for planting when you can sit on the ground before 10 a.m. and not get your butt cold...
...Potsdamer Platz last week, an old man creakily stooped to retrieve a cigarette butt. He expressed the city's skepticism: "New rumors, eh? Ha, they're all just like soap bubbles-too shiny to be true." Near Tempelhof airdrome, where the U.S. and British planes were still droning in, a student scoffed: "The Russians are bluffing again...
More bullets riddled the station wagon. General Jalandoni threw himself in front of Mrs. Quezon and drew his revolver. A rifle butt slammed into his cheek, he fell unconscious. Before the police escort riding behind could open fire effectively, the attackers had seized what valuables they could and melted into the green hills. Soon afterward, General Jalandoni came to. About him were twelve dead, including the Philippines' first lady, her daughter, and her son-in-law, whose pregnant wife had stayed at home...
...engages in conversation with the young lady seated opposite him. He hopes the stale cigar smoke left in the compartment by a previous passenger will not offend her. She mentions her disgust for men who try to pick her up; the American says nothing, but lights a discarded cigar butt and puffs furiously in her face. That's all there is to it; neat, and very effective...
...clothes. He liked champagne, dance music, danger and girls, especially brunettes with high cheek bones. He was endowed with intelligence and a barefaced talent for lying. He had no scruples against shooting a man, aborting a girl, or whacking an old lady over the head with a pistol butt...