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...ranging from the well-known bite to a mass snatch of the voting opposition, the hero wins the presidency of the local. Whereupon, in order to make good on his blithe campaign promise of a new union hall, complete with a bar and a bowling alley, he hijacks a crate of watches worth $750,000 and fences them out to big jewelry firms...
...strange and austere to modern graduates of schools of creative writing, summer conferences, or writers' workshops. He pays four years' advance rent on an attic, a "cave" where he can "agonize in secret," buys some paper, a Waterman Ideal pen, a bed, a mug, a plate, a crate of oranges and a sack of coarse oatmeal. Except that he is "tired and sick to death of all people who on earth do dwell," he has no enemy in the world. But soon he has plenty. They range from "rhypokondylose* violent stultified editors" to literary agents who are "effete...
...engineer who never got beyond high school, wasted few ideas. While working for the Railway Express by day-and turning out metal toe-caps for shoes, dental bridge clasps, and clock hands for ice delivery cards in the family garage with his father at night-he noticed that egg crates were being ruined when pried open. He invented removable metal crate clamps that sold so well, for 32? a pair, that he set up a full-time business in a building he bought for nothing down. (He promptly rented out the upstairs for $40 a month, his entire carrying charge...
...Henri Rousseau, by a youthful admirer named Pablo Picasso, who decorated his Montmartre studio with Chinese lanterns and ordered in a "gargantuan supply of wine.'' When the party ended and the sun was rising, Rousseau had long since left his seat of honor (a chair on a crate) and gone home...
...Elvis Presley croons his stuff to Army buddies instead of live mikes, sharp-eared execs at Louisville's tiny Legacy Records, Inc. were set to unveil the aging tree from which the young block was chipped: Elvis' spry grandpappy. Jesse Presley, 62. Jesse, now a Pepsi-Cola crate repairman, has already turned his crackly tenor loose on four soon-to-be-released sides of old cotton-pickin' tunes (sample: Swingin' in the Orchard). A critical admirer of the family's most agile sprout ("He is a good Christian...