Word: butts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, Mr. & Mrs. Albert J. Anderson were nearing the end of their treasure hunt (among other items they must collect: a Winston Churchill cigar butt, one hair from Jack Benny's toupee, another from John L. Lewis' eyebrow, a salt cellar from Senator Pepper, a shilling from Sir Harry Lauder, a copy of the Missouri Waltz, autographed by President Truman and Senator Taft, one of Herbert Hoover's collars). If they bring in everything to NBC's Truth or Consequences next week, the Andersons will collect a washing machine, a man's wardrobe, a diamond...
Direct Action. In Omaha, a customer underestimated Mrs. Nonie Anders, waltzed out of her restaurant without paying his 75? check, whereupon the 61-year-old proprietor picked up her pistol, chased the customer out to his car, conked him with the gun butt, dragged him back in and called the cops...
...colonial powers, had listened sympathetically to The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens: he argued that the Indonesian trouble was a domestic quarrel in the Dutch household, that the Indonesian Republic will not be an independent government until Jan. 1, 1949, The neighbors, said Van Kleffens, had no business to butt...
...cities, as always, the warnings of conflict and disorder were sharpest. Throngs of wartime jobholders were idle. In sweltering Calcutta, it took but the flick of a Moslem cigaret butt against the flanks of a sacred Hindu cow, or a Hindu tonga driver's bumping a Moslem child, to start a fight that would engulf the city. Last week Calcutta was still divided into "Pakistan" and "Hindustan" quarters, with strong points bristling with .barbed wire and machine guns. A Hindu driver dared not cross into a Moslem quarter, nor a Moslem into "Hindustan." In Bombay, where Hindus and Moslems...
Then the drivers "beat the side of his head with a shotgun." Said Marvin H. Flemming's statement: "I could hear some licks like they were pounding on him with the butt end of a gun. I heard the Negro say, 'Lord, you done killed me.' " Finally, said Charlie Covington, he heard Roosevelt Carlos Hurd Sr., a Blue Bird cab driver, cry out: "Give me the gun and let's get this over with." Just then, "a tall, slender boy with bushy hair hit the Negro in the mouth and knocked him down. The Negro started...