Word: caning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...could call it dull. There were playmates with such names as Trumper. Po King and Boy Blue. There was an occasional flood that carried away the shacks of the natives. There was the great blue sea to swim in, the teachers at school ever ready to cane the inattentive, the vigorous back-fence give & take between parents and neighbors...
...owners replied that recognition would be followed inevitably by ruinous wage demands. As it is, the Department of Agriculture subsidy makes the difference between profit and loss for many a planter. This week the growers' Sugar Cane League, in newspaper advertisements, vowed that "this is a struggle which the farmers will not and cannot lose," threatened "mass discharges and evictions" if the strike did not end. Some planters have already imported strikebreakers from Mississippi...
...homework)? . . . What if you went without it?' . . . 'Well, the Head . . . would send you down to his study. He wouldn't talk or beg you to do your work. He would just give you six of the best . . . That's six wallops with his birch cane. And boy, do they hurt...
...inquired also what would happen if he was late. That would result in about two with the cane. And what would happen if he threw an orange at the teacher or hit him between the eyes with a paper clip, as in New York or Tokyo? . . . 'That would be Monday night detention for three to five hours, plus six of the best, plus no more football or swimming for the rest of the term...
Ratoons, Novelist Rooke explains, are the sprouts that spring from last year's sugar-cane roots. No full-grown stalk of a novel. Ratoons itself bristles with sprouts of promise...