Word: drawerfuls
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Says Doggereleer Tucker, "I've got a whole drawer of them...
...seemed to link the crime with the 1950 Brink's robbery-was soon forthcoming. Bank Truck 512, like other U.S. Trucking Corp, armored vehicles, was kept at night in Brink's Boston garage. Their keys, each with the truck's number, were kept in an unlocked drawer close to the street entrance. Almost anyone, it seemed, could have stolen a key or taken one long enough to get it duplicated. An ex-convict, now employed by a Boston garage, told the police about calling recently at Brink's to pick up a bank truck which needed...
...inferiority" of all other races, especially the Negro, is divinely ordained and therefore unalterable. As editor (of Cape Town's Afrikaans Die Burger), Malan taught Afrikaners that South Africa belonged exclusively to them, that the Negro should know his place as a permanent "hewer of wood and drawer of water." In 1919 he was elected to Parliament as M.P. for the town of Calvinia. His first important achievement: inserting a new phrase in South Africa's Constitution: "The people of the Union acknowledge the sovereignty and guidance of Almighty...
...counties, probably shook more hands than anyone in Tennessee political history, and nettled Mistah Crump into a roar that made Kefauver famous. "Kefauver," wrote Crump in full-page newspaper advertisements through the state, "reminds me of the pet coon that puts its foot in an open drawer in your room, but invariably turns its head while it is feeling around in the drawer...
...comers in prize money for five seasons-he still lacked some ingredients. He could not leave his work on the golf course, but let his passion for perfection rule his whole existence. His keen eyes noted such minute details as the fact that one knob on a hotel bureau drawer did not match the other. His finicky palate rebelled at restaurant food from Kalamazoo to California; unless a steak was cooked just so, back it would go to the kitchen. Only in his treatment of Valerie, his wife, did he show a gentle side...