Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...projected program of National Selected Morticians Inc. for the burial of highly radioactive bodies by lowering the caskets into excavations floored by a copious layer of concrete and then completely surrounding them with more concrete poured to fill the excavations [TiME, March 17], is totally unnecessary...
...called "sport" of goose pulling [TIME, March 10] in South Carolina, I am wondering why we have blamed all the sadism and torture of recent times on the Nazis and Japs. Can it be that there are those in our own United States who have still not had their fill of suffering, torture and slow death these past few years? ... If there are those who can stand and "laugh" and "cheer" at this unbelievably disgusting exhibit of perversion in one of our states, then we had better take up the cudgels where we left off in Europe...
...Americans had a star candidate in right-handed Pitcher Art Houtteman. Of all places, he will play in Detroit, which many think already has the best pitching staff (Newhouser, Trout, Trucks, etc.) in baseball. The Boston Red Sox, rated even money to win their pennant again, hope to fill their big hole in right field with an ex-Marine rookie, Sabath ("Sam") Mele...
Then over the waves of ether To fill their sweet long dreams Come tales of terror and torture And 17 kinds of screams...
...networks would have to do better than that. Already in the congressional hopper was a bill asking for an investigation of radio's crime shows. The thought of all this bad publicity was enough to fill the dreams of radiomen with 17 kinds of screams...