Word: carting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workers settling down for another evening in front of the telly were roused by a clangorous racket. Peering into the almost-deserted, cement-paved play area of Boyce Way, they made out a brown-robed, sturdily striding figure swinging a schoolbell and shouting: "Come to the play on a cart...
...nation -the men who pay their $2-to-$6 monthly dues-are content to keep their eyes on the road and not on union affairs. They roll into the city platforms to unload produce and furniture, autos and chickens. They drive cabs, deliver flowers, department-store merchandise and groceries, cart off garbage. They are strong and competent. But as Teamsters, they are either uninformed, indifferent or scared...
...distrust foreigners, regardless of nationality. When the Afghan King left his Russian jet and was whisked to his palace on a five-lane Russian-built superhighway, it quite possibly marked the first time in several weeks that the highway had been used by anything more than a donkey cart. Russia has also supplied some $40 million in military aid "several" T-34 tanks, fairly modern artillery pieces, 32 MIG-17 fighter planes and six helicopters, as well as 30 taxis for the near empty streets of Kabul. The U.S. considers southern Afghanistan its sphere of assistance, has built.two major dams...
...slut was audacious and insolent to the end," remarked Hebert, one of the most ferocious of her enemies, when she was driven to the guillotine in a garbage cart. Minutes later the tumbrel, dripping with blood, carried the body to an unmarked plot of grass, where it was dumped onto the ground, and the severed head of Marie Antoinette placed between the legs. Author Castelot does not deny or defend his Queen's audacity and insolence, nor does he try to cover her multitude of sins. But by the end of his book, it is not the echoes...
Similarly in Act II, Kilty slips in and out of the glorious interlude in The Apple Cart, in which Shaw intended King Magnus to be the author and Orinthia to be Mrs. Campbell--two portraits in disguise. This act too presents the long quarrel between the two over what should be done with their letters and over how much of them ought to be published. The act moves on to a most affecting conclusion, as we see the pathetic decline and hard days of Mrs. Campbell, who finally has to overcome her pride and write to Shaw for assistance...