Word: hayloft
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...farmer, he was raised in Martinsville, a town whose chief distinction, as noted in Ripley's Believe It or Not, was that its 5,200 inhabitants built a basketball fieldhouse that seated 5,520. He began with a rag ball and the proverbial peach basket nailed to the hayloft. He was an honor student and a three-time All-America at Purdue, where he financed his way by waiting on tables and taping the ankles of football players for 350 an hour. He is remembered as the "India Rubber Man," a 5-ft. 10-in., razzle-dazzle guard whose...
...occurs on a sunny afternoon while life is proceeding apace around you. The twins continue to play in the barn and plan their magic show while around them person after person dies in horrible circumstances due to the actions of the "bad" twin. Their insufferable cousin, jumping in the hayloft, lands on a carefully placed pitchfork. Their invalid mother is pushed down the stairs in the middle of the night when no one but them is there is to see. By day they are such charming creatures, uninterested by anything except their childish games, that an external spirit of evil...
...kind lady lives here," while the canine image warns of a "vicious dog here." Other signs are a cross ("religious talk gets free meal"), two intersecting circles ("police here frown on hobos"), two wavy lines supported by a pillar and sheltering a small circle ("you can sleep in hayloft") and an indescribable squiggle that translates "food here if you work...
...pigeon-toed bumpkin in the first act of Manon, for example, lies this Sills analysis: "She was born with a good bosom and a shock of unusual-colored hair, whatever the color. She probably has gone barefoot all week except Sundays. Mama has probably caught her in the hayloft with one of the farm hands and decided that this kid is too much for her to handle. So she sends her to the convent...
...stone within a 270-ft. circumference, it ranged cows and horses facing into a central core. At harvest time, wagons bearing fresh loads from the fields could enter by a separate driveway that led to the level above the stalls, then drive around the circle, distributing feed in the hayloft. A manure pit beneath the stable level permitted cow dung to fall through trapdoors and be easily carted away...