Word: crocking
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...title to his newest book of essays, Mr. McCord goes to the old philosopher of "The Crock of Gold," and chooses as a motto on his title page that worthy's recurrent pliant, "there are lumps in it." The lumps in this literary Stirabout are various and many...
...stories and never names a character. So universal are the loves, fears, hates and desires, that the generic term suffices: a man, a woman, he, they. He brings to them much of the intensive insight into human fears and frailty, but less of the happy charm of his Crock of Gold. No happiness at all about "Hunger"-grim story of a woman's fortitude mocked by the inevitability of sheer want. First one child dies of starvation, then another, then the weary husband. And in the end there is nothing left but her crippled child, and bread lines. Again...
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...Sunbury, Pa., David Ross McCreary, ten months old, crawled to a crock, pulled himself erect, peered in, fell in, drowned in five inches of water...
...field hockey. The opposing centers are about to put in play a ball the size of a baseball; two forwards on each team are prepared to receive it. The men carry sticks similar to those now in use, though they are shorter as to handle and end in a crock rather than in a flat arm. The whole scene greatly resembles the aspect of the modern game in every way. Of course I do not know just how the ancient Greeks played their game--whether there were more players on each team, whether there were goals, etc.--but it does...