Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME was acceptable and sometimes it was not. The one sure way to open the cornucopia of the back room was to produce an issue of LIFE.'' Explained the trader: "It costs one copper for anyone to stand there while the sand runs through the small hole in the bottom of my timekeeper gourd ... I am the only man in this village who can read words, but anyone can read pictures...
...picture, he is often without matching trousers and jacket; until very recently he preferred blue jeans for all social gatherings. The day he arrived in Hollywood, Marlon honored the occasion by dressing up in his only suit, but somehow failed to notice that the trousers had a hole in the knee and a slit in the seat, through which the tail of his shirt was showing. Shirts are a nuisance, anyway; when one gets dirty, he just rolls it up in a ball, stuffs it in a closet and buys another. At table, Marlon often drops his head to plate...
...line James has no problems with weight, since his forwards average over 200 pounds from end to end. Besides veteran Oniskey at right guard is 195-pound John Anderluh. He fills the hole left in pre-season practice by the injury or James van Buren, a senior who broke a rib in a scrimmage with Penn State...
William Holden's excuse for being in the movie is that he is large and muscular, and can make astounding faces. He is called upon to do this from time to time: when sitting down on two champagne glasses, when falling through a hole in a hammock, etc. Holden doesn't get to say a great deal in the movie, but he drives badly, a clear indication that he is wild, wicked and rich...
...grey, blitz-battered part of London, between the Thames and St. Paul's Cathedral, is a rubble-littered hole where a 14-story office building will soon rise. Since that part of London stands on many layers of history, Archaeologist William Grimes of the London Museum got permission to dig a trench to see what lay deeper down...