Word: chockablock
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...cousin to the late King Alfonso of Spain, and he drew himself up to his full 5 ft. 7 in. when doubters wanted to stick pins in him to see if he had hemophilia. He had no Hapsburg lip either, but he did have cigar boxes chockablock with $1,000 bills, though no one ever got really close enough to find out if they were real. He scooted around in a Duesenberg and gave fancy dinner parties (guests remembered, later, that a waitress always read the menu...
...eleven years (four of them in Army service at Fort Richardson, near Anchorage), he had been appalled to find as many as 18 natives living chockablock in one small, stove-heated log cabin. He knew that T.B. would never be checked unless cases were isolated. He also knew that the natives' resistance to the white man's plague had been greatly lessened by their narrow, unbalanced diet, by the introduction of white men's fire water, soft drinks, candy and carbohydrates...
What were the biggest news stories of 1945? On anybody's list, the biggest was the atom. Looking back over a year that was chockablock with news of history-book size, the press associations last week had no trouble filling their lists with big stories. The U.P.'s top twelve events, picked for their "surprise, significance and headline display...
...pasteboard covers, filed away in desk drawers are the blueprints for the machinery needed to demobilize the greatest Army in the nation's history. Within the past month, conferences have followed one another so rapidly that Tompkins' work basket and the baskets of his staff now are chockablock with nothing but demobilization reports...
Janie (by Josephine Bentham & Herschel Williams; produced by Brock Pemberton) tells of a new Junior Miss up to new junior mischief. It tells it in terms of the present, when small towns lie chockablock with army camps, and harum-scarum, boy-crazy young things, talking weird slang in whiny voices, give high-school seniors the go-by and dashing privates the come-on. One night, while her parents are out, Janie (Gwen Anderson) throws a small party for the military, which by midnight achieves riotous and regimental proportions. Coca-Cola gives way to Scotch, soldiers get locked in bathrooms, jeeps...