Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...infiltrating Red force, probably Chinese, achieved complete surprise. O'Rama and his buddies were still talking about the bugles "when a hand grenade was thrown into our hole." Some cavalryman thonght their attackers were insane. Said a U.S. sergeant: "They would stand right up in front of you laughing to beat hell...
...which 66, or 80, or 95 percent of any expense, depending on the marginal tax rate, comes out of taxes and is paid by the government. As one writer put it recently, excess profits taxation constitutes a standing offer by the government to put several dollars down every rat hole in which a business concern drops one dollar...
After an early Springfield touchdown, the score changed hands three times in the second period. Tsavaris broke through a wide hole at guard for a 31-yard scoring romp and Bob Kendall rushed the point. After Degutis first touchdown, throw, Kierstead took the ball to the 20 on a bootleg, and Kendall ran it over, with Tsavaris carrying for the point. Degutis got away his other long heave in the third quarter, and Howe clinched it in the final period with two long runs and a short rush, all through the line...
...Inchon. Before the Korean war, Almond would drive home from his Dai Ichi building office for a light lunch. Then, weather permitting, he would take his putter out for 45 minutes on a nine-hole putting course in his garden. Occasionally he and his wife slipped away for a long weekend in the mountains at Karuizawa; there he played 36 holes of golf (middle 80s) a day. He also likes ping-pong and canasta...
...first big job was playing piano for Trumpeter "Bunny" Berrigan in a hole in the wall in Manhattan's "Jazz Street" (West 52nd) called The Famous Door. In 1938, Tommy Dorsey, who then had a couple of staff singers named Jo Stafford and Frank Sinatra, picked Bushkin up from Berrigan. Dorsey hired him as a pianist even before he heard him play a piano; he liked his musicianship on the trumpet-an instrument Joe had taken up in high school. One of Joe's songs, Oh, Look at Me Now, was Sinatra's first solo...