Word: crates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...struck by a soldier. A captain came along, beat him some more, jabbed his legs and arm with a knife point, Kim said. They shaved his hair off with electric clippers, daubed coal tar on his head and face. Then they packed 4-ft. Kim into a 3-ft. crate used to carry plane parts, put holes in it to give him air and loaded their cargo aboard a helicopter. The camp commander, Major Thomas G. James of Plymouth, Pa., flew the copter himself. James planned to leave the boy at a disused field and make him walk back...
...tone is as plump as a Percheron's rump. As a musician, though, Lanza owes perhaps too much to his early conditioning as a delivery man for a wholesale grocer. No matter how light the aria, he delivers it-grunting and sweating and rolling his eyes -like a crate of olive...
Swank & Slot Machines. The 20-story, 400-room Havana Riviera (up to $40 a day for a double room) is a modern-style palace with egg-crate fagades, wall-to-wall marble, a 78-cabaña pool and ornate saloons. One of its prime functions plainly is to house well-heeled amateur gamblers in soporific luxury and feed them efficiently to the hemisphere's swankiest casino, a domed, elliptical hall with gold-leafed walls, 85 slot machines and 17 tables for craps, blackjack and roulette. One effect was to attract to the opening a fortnight ago the largest...
Nine months ago, in the township of Harere, on the outskirts of Salisbury, capital of the Central African Federation, little Elias first mounted the pulpit-a Pepsi-Cola crate. The six-year-old boy was handsome, dignified; he exuded authority and wore shoes. His mother, in a flowing white robe, stood behind him chanting softly and clasping her hands. About them gathered a crowd of naked children, zoot-suited men and women in gaily-colored print dresses. Little Elias threw back his head and closed his eyes. "Hear my word!" he cried in Shona, a native dialect. "It was your...
...Walt Disney studios and asked her how she would like to be in pictures-not in any old cartoon, but in a brand-new sort of thing called "a true-life fantasy." Assuming that her squeals were intended to signify delight, the fellow promptly popped her into a crate, and away she went bouncing to fame and misfortune...