Word: headful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor boy who goes bad and does a fine job of it. He starts out by rolling drunks in alleys, works the reform school circuit for a while, swaggers up to be a big gun in his thoroughly realistic neighborhood, drives his good faithful wife to sticking her head in the gas-oven, and finally is hauled up on a cop-killing charge. Bogart, who has also come up from the ranks, but switched to the right side of the tracks via a stretch at night law school, decides to take Derek's case...
Chasing Fleas. Opposing factions had moved up to the showdown with the customary elephantine senatorial ceremony. Moodily watched by their Northern colleagues, the Southerners had continued to plod through their filibuster. Any good Southern orator, standing on his head, could have done all the talking that was required...
...indoor practice season with one eye on the 52-odd varsity and freshmen tryouts and the other eye on the barometer, waiting for a chance to get his hopefuls outdoors, where men are gazelles and there aren't any balls bouncing off the roof onto one's head...
...paper, Munro has a top-notch team. Fourteen lettermen and a large contingent from last year's strong freshmen team must add up to something, especially with an All-American lacrosse player, and successful soccer coach, at their head, But this is on paper and Munro has seen very little of the team...
...just abut ready. He really should wear suspenders, but he would postpone that until chapter two; for the time being, he would have to keep seated. Vag carefully centered the blotters on the desk top, blew the dust off the top of the inkwell, and scratched his head. Oh yes, the foolscap, Rushing down to the corner, holding his pants up with one hand, he piked up his tuxedo and 100 sheets of watermarked bond. Cleaned and pressed they were; he piled them on his bed, but placed a whisk broom drawer , brought out and unlocked a small steel case...