Word: crater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baruch can be powerfully simple and direct, but he is a person of extraordinary sophistication, a master of charmingly indirect talk which suddenly opens to leave an inference the size of a bomb crater. He has spent a great part of his years holding his tongue. Henderson is a great babbler who wakes up sounding his "A" and holds it all day, roaring through his work in a rich torrent of cuss words, grunts and bellows, like a bull of Bashan...
...standing near the porters' desk, close to the luggage room, when there was a blinding flash. Long tongues of flame shot out from the luggage room. I was thrown to the ground and got up to find myself in a crater, out of which I was only able to look up. Several others were in the crater with...
...London, where a well-trimmed imperial might nowadays conceal a secret agent, a policeman looked suspiciously at bearded Bank of England Governor Montagu Norman inspecting a bomb crater near the Bank, asked him whether he had any business there. Norman replied casually that he worked in a bank. "Well, sir," sniffed the bobby, "how about buzzing off and doing a bit of banking...
...they made a tingling discovery: the famed old "birching block," over which headmasters had birched (i.e., flogged) boys' bottoms for generations, was missing. Although many an Etonian was disposed to let well enough alone, antiquarians searched diligently, eventually found the birching block's remains in a bomb crater. Last week they reverently picked up the pieces, installed them in the Eton Museum...
...When crater-mouthed Comic Joe E. Brown took a wife 25 years ago, they were married in Manhattan's Municipal Building and rode home on the subway. "Some day," promised Joe, "we'll have a real wedding, in a church, with organ music and flowers and all the rest." Last week Joe and wife observed their silver anniversary and acquired a barrel of publicity by getting remarried in Hollywood's St. Thomas Church, with their four children as attendants. Afterwards they took a commemorative ride...