Word: haystacks
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...Ridgeway, Mo., Albert Harding freed his cow. For 17 days it had been prisoned under a huge snowdrift against the side of a haystack, nibbling into the haystack for food, licking into the snowdrift for water...
...found on the eighth floor of the Shoreham Hotel. By afternoon, however, AP had had a change of heart, picked up the story from the version printed by the New York Post. At last Washington heard how Sergeant Jurney failed to find a 225-lb. needle in the Washington haystack but stumbled into a mare's nest...
...Royal summer estate at Sandringham a haystack caught fire last week. Out roared George V's up-to-date motor fire engine. While the haystack burned and the firemen tinkered, the engine refused to squirt...
...scene which is inexcusable. Riggs, in his search for realism, paints with a broad brush. It's an old western custom to give a chivivari to an engaged couple. In accordance with tradition Miss Walker, in a night gown, together with her betrothed, is placed upon a haystack to endure with the audience ten minutes of as vulgar wise-cracking as Boston has ever heard. It is not funny or even cleverly risque; it is just downright smutty...
...after the Armistice, they experimented with six-ton cannon. One day six years ago Ugo crawled into the gun's muzzle. The brother "fired" it, a blast of compressed air plus a puff of gunpowder smoke to make it realistic. Ugo hurtled out and landed, unhurt, in a haystack. Now they have perfected the trick. The "gunner" brother takes care of the mechanism, guards it jealously. At each performance Ugo climbs into the barrel. Much depends on his brother's aim, but not all. Ugo has found that by beating his arms he can retard his speed...