Word: crates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orange Crate. On other issues, the platform said about what it could be expected to. It attacked the Administration's "appeasement of Communism at home and abroad," and pledged an overhauling of U.S. loyalty and security programs. It condemned the "wanton extravagance" in Washington, and promised tax cuts. After pointing out that "fraud, bribery, graft, favoritism and influence-peddling" had come to light in the Truman Administration, it vowed to "oust the crooks and grafters...
When Senator Millikin had finished reading the 6,000-word platform, the convention adopted it by voice vote, without a murmur of dissent. It was a workmanlike piece of fast political carpentry-and, except for the foreign-policy plank, about as inspiring as an orange crate. Only in one field had the framers of the document agreed to a simple proposition, stated clearly, without fear or favor. "We pledge," said the plank, "a more efficient and frequent mail-delivery service...
Beanball. In Chicago, Milkman William Arneson spotted a thief running away from his delivery truck with a crate of eggs and 13 pounds of butter, knocked him out by hurling a half-gallon bottle of milk, proudly identified himself to police as pitcher for the Bowman Dairy Baseball Team...
...these not-so-legitimate characters. The prison backgrounds were realistically filmed at San Quentin, but the six convicts are now jailbirds of a more flamboyant feather. Among their activities, which have been broadly colored up for movie purposes: smuggling the wife of a fellow convict into prison in a crate marked "Highly Inflammable"; saving Psychologist Wilson (John Beal) from being used by a psychopathic killer as a jailbreak shield. To these extravagant exploits the picture adds others even more farfetched: the convicts operating a bookie joint called the Psychosomatic Bookkeeping Co. in the psychologist's office; Wilson quelling...
...yields in exercise and excitement. At the moment, Teal plans to release a set of dogs to scatter the musk-ox herd. Expert ropers will then try to lasso and tie up the adults, and after that a group of strong young men will run down, hog-tie and crate the eight lucky calves...