Word: circusing
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...better than a three-ring circus," one wife, stopped while she was dashing from old fame to family, was heard to exclaim. A junior son passed up a chance to go to the ball game just to sit agape at the eight of his father hugging old comrades in cups...
...late afternoon crowds pushed and jostled past the well-stocked shops of the Kurfurstendamm, or loafed in its sidewalk cafes over mountainous sundaes and cool drinks. The Busch Circus, set up in tents nearby, advertised a "Swedish Tarzan" and eight ferocious tigers. Along Onkel Tom Strasse* in the U.S. sector, Berliners strolled through a fragrant snowfall of locust blossoms. Plump, healthy-looking children cavorted atop West Berlin's "Mountain of Tears," a huge pile of rubble...
Sure Thing. In Phoenix. Ariz., Wallace Bros. Circus offered $1.000 to anyone who could stay aboard Tiny Tim, the elephant, for three full minutes, won their wager with two men, a boy and one woman-who sued for $111,000 for injuries...
...winter time, and he had to be persuaded not to take the first train back to the Midwest. Came spring and Pilot Bissell thought: "For me to be drawing wages for piloting a towboat under these conditions. why, that's just like paying a kid to watch the circus...
Field Test. In Durham, England, engineering students had it all figured out on paper that 20 men could outpull one elephant until Jumbo, a circus animal, ruined their calculation by pulling both students and teaching staff 20 dusty yards on the end of a tow rope...