Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sometimes things go wrong. Occasionally the Tabulator gets dust in its innards and obstinately prints the wrong letter every time a hole appears in one of the 60 columns on each card...
...hole up front was Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud, a big, impassive, 26-year-old Indian from Friendship, Wis. and Red Cloud did not hesitate. Half rising, he shouted an alarm, and then began loosing furious bursts from his automatic rifle into the running Chinese soldiers...
...notice anything so obvious as rising living costs. Illness, whether his own or others', was ignored or dismissed with a shrug. "Her injuries," he informed Miss Patch, after 76-year-old Mrs. Shaw had been hurt in an automobile accident, "are only bruises and sprains and a troublesome hole in her shin plus two black eyes...
...improvement calls for the old fright elevator to be replaced by a new, automatic one. A five-foot hole must be dug in the cellar to provide space for some of the apparatus involved...
...Salle's name known throughout the state and in many parts of the U.S. On at least one occasion, the vice mayor showed he had courage enough to sacrifice votes to principle. He thought Toledo needed a city income tax to pull itself out of a financial hole; the town's potent C.I.O. opposed it. Di Salle, although he was running for Congress at the time and needed every vote he could get, exposed himself to boos and invective at a big C.I.O. mass meeting where he argued for the proposal...