Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pachinko machine (cost: $20) stands upright to save space. From the owner the player buys a handful of small steel balls at 2 yen (½?/) apiece and drops them one by one into a small hole on the right side of the machine. With a spring-driven lever he flicks the ball upward; if it happens to fall into one of several nail-fenced cavities in the face of the machine, the player wins 10, 15 or 20 steel balls. Those he can trade for cigarettes, candies or a variety of other inexpensive prizes (law forbids prizes worth more than...
Then, when his patrol was caught by enemy mortar fire, he saw two of his buddies killed. He collapsed. A corpsman found George shaking and crying, trying to dig a hole in the rocky Korean ground with his bare hands. At the division clearing station, when he heard friendly artillery fire, he jumped under his cot and clawed the ground. Sodium amytal and a firm but friendly psychiatrist helped George to relive his troubles, and to see them for what they were. Within a week he was back with his outfit...
...night the delta glowed like the door of a great furnace. The lava coming out of the hole was brilliantly white-hot. It dulled to orange and then to red as it neared the boiling...
During their first day on the dangerous island, Richards and Walker climbed the cone and descended 200 ft. into the crater, often sinking to their knees in fine lava dust. They watched steam escaping from a hole 6 ft. across "with a roar that you would expect from 100 jet planes...
Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, alias Baron Corvo, was born in 1860 with (it would appear) a hole in his head. It was by no means the usual cranial gap of infancy but, according to those who had felt it, a "perceptible hole." Though markedly intelligent, he never caught hold at school. He quit at 15 and bounced about such places as Oxford, probably on allowance from his father, a piano manufacturer. At 26, after taking a few places as schoolmaster, he was converted to Roman Catholicism and entered preparation for the priesthood...