Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carl Creel, 26, a mechanic six weeks out of the Army, was jouncing along a Mississippi highway one day when he hit a hole in the road and his car flipped over on its side. Creel's left arm, part way through the window, was trapped between the car and the paving. He could think of only one thing to do, and he did it. As Creel told his own case history...
...current batch of tenured professors. The risks involved in keeping a known and non-disciplined Communist are much smaller than those implicit in breaking the tenure code because of a lawful though stupid political affiliation. Because breaking tenure rules in even one unjustified instance is like drilling a hole in a dike, a Communist should have as much of a chance as anyone else to show his competence to his fellow teachers...
...Hole in the Wallpaper. A Jamaican moved into a flat formerly occupied by a quiet, well-dressed chap named John Reginald Halliday Christie. Scouting about for a place to install a bathtub, he accidentally poked through a piece of wallpaper in the kitchen. A woman's leg fell out through the opening. He ran into the street shouting murder...
Added Mrs. Hecht: Actress Cummings, in her turn, once "kicked a hole in Jenny's dress while she was in it." Worse, Jenny was deprived of her solo curtain call. She consoled herself with the thought that "for every person who hates me backstage, there are 30 people out there who love me." For the rest, she calmed her nerves by reading Chekhov...
...served as a forward outpost of one of the oil industry's most famous field bosses, James MacPherson, 62, as he hunted for oil ashore. At a cost of $30 million, MacPherson's long-futile quest became the most expensive in Middle East history. After five dry holes, oilmen all over the Middle East joked: "Four more holes will give Mac a nine-hole golf course." From Cairo to Dhahran, their stock greeting became: "Mac, struck anything yet?" The answer was always...