Word: carting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane, the tailwinds race the ticking bomb. At 11:05, 25 minutes ahead of schedule, the DC-3 touches down at Mazatlan's palm-fringed airport. The heavy package is taken off the plane and, while the DC-3 takes off again, it is placed in a luggage cart. At 11:20 the bomb bursts. It kills three airport employees and wrecks the control tower. At the same moment, the direct plane to La Paz for which the package was meant is high over the Gulf of California, safe...
...Breaking Point. In London, Drayman Joseph Howes gave up trying to persuade his rented pony Dolly to pull a heavily laden cart, unhitched her, tied her to the tailgate, pulled the load himself...
...Animal Matter. Three months ago, while walking through Bihar, Vinoba Bhave was seized with acute malaria. His temperature rose above 103, but he kept on walking as long as he could, then continued by bullock cart. In Chandil, a small village, he collapsed and was put to bed, but he refused all medication. "God," he said, "either wants to free me or desires to purify this body for employing it again in His work." He also refused to be taken to a hospital in Patna, the state capital. Said he: "Do not people also die in Patna...
Freshman golfers won their first match of the season yesterday, 5 1/2 to 3 1/2, at Governor Dummer. In match play the Crimson captured four of six contests. Cart Burt, Bill McAllister, Dick Savrann and Brock Stokes each won. In best ball competition, Yardling foursomes won one, lost one, and tied...
...modern and Mexican. The scene is a fortresslike, claustrophobic public square featuring such darkly symbolic places as a luxury hotel, a flophouse, a brothel, a pawnshop, and such darkly symbolic figures as a callous worldling who spits on common humanity, Storm-Trooperish policemen who cudgel it, street cleaners who cart its bodies off to the city dump. Around an arriving young American prizefighter with a bad heart flow loan sharks, plutocrats, cooch dancers, madams, homosexuals, a Casanova on his uppers, a Camille who herself must buy love, a Lord Byron who escapes to Greece for an ideal, a Don Quixote...