Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discuss politics. We fell back upon endless analyses of books that Clara was reading-Shakespeare, Dickens, Jack London." When they could afford it, they telephoned, and Alf noticed that Clara's isolation led her to speak in dated British slang, with such expressions as "ripping" and "top-hole." Alf sent Clara dresses and a fur coat; he sent Nicky, the seven-year-old son he had never seen, a complete Hopalong Cassidy outfit with a "bristling armory of guns...
Twenty-eight months of Mossadegh had left Iran a mendicant, left its finances $544 million in the hole, inflated its prices perilously, and set the country running into debt at the rate of $5,000,000 monthly. Iran needs $200 million in the next two years, $10 million forthwith...
...they had the courage to have their say and the strength to take their punishment. Said Corporal "Buster Brown" White, of Alabama City, Ala.: "If they accused us of somethin', we said we didn't know nuthin' about it. If they tossed us in 'the hole,' we just kept our mouths shut. We just didn't do nuthin' they told...
...Camp Three paid heavily for their "hostile attitude." They had almost no medical care, and their food was bad and wormy. They labored long and hard, climbing up mountains to gather wood, digging ditches, tending fields. Some, like Conte, squatted for months in "the hole," a tiny cell in which a prisoner could not stand or lie down. "My biggest worry was that I was going to lose my mind in there," said Conte. "Then I learned to keep my mind a blank for hours on end, and somehow I didn't go nuts...
Gentle summer breezes played along the shoreline of Green Lake, Wis., across the rolling carpet of the 18-hole golf course, the tennis courts, the spacious yacht basin. But not the click of a driver was heard, or a splash from the water. Sitting on folding chairs under the oak trees were 800-odd men, women and children celebrating with hymns, prayers and well-chosen words the tenth anniversary of a summer gathering place for American (Northern) Baptists...