Word: derricked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long practiced such tricks as pulling a string of five coal carts up an incline, or tugging along a 4½-ton truck. Top challenger Willi Lehner, 36, a 230-lb. stonemason from Unterpeissen-berg, was fond of hanging suspended by his finger from the claw of a derrick. Dressed in their holiday leather knickers and green felt hats, the wrestlers wound their legs around steel stools (wooden chairs would snap like toothpicks), and at the umpire's command "Auf!" tried to pull their opponent's hand across a line drawn a foot from the center...
...read with interest your Sept. 21 article regarding Postman Frank Derrick, who, with a salary of $4,000 a year, is able to afford a "brick, three-bedroom ranch house with two TV sets, and an air conditioner, and a piano." How does...
...spends his spare time playing (violin, saxophone, clarinet) with the ''Frank Derrick Orchestra," makes another $4,000 a year...
...Folksy, derrick-sized Sid Williams Richardson, unlike some of his fellow Texas wheeler-dealers, never hunted publicity, often quoted one of his favorite maxims: "You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'!" His dry, country humor and his ability to translate a complex business or political situation into plain horse sense made him a number of friends, but never found him a wife. When needled about his bachelorhood, Richardson explained his private theory about life: "Do right and fear no man; don't write and fear no woman. They're all wantin...
Publisher Lottinville, onetime Rhodes scholar, speaks with authority. For 20 years, he has run his bustling, 40-man shop in the shadow of an oil derrick. Yet Oklahoma is known for more than oil. Over the years, its topflight press has published 426 books, ranging from the influential Plowman's Folly (340,000 copies sold) to last week's Athens in the Age of Pericles, the first of an intriguing series on great cities. Oklahoma's recent music books make it better known in Milan and Bonn than many a famed name on Manhattan's publishers...