Word: jugs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake." As he said the text a second time, every eye fixed on his lips and hands. Describing Christ's preparation for the Last Supper, he told of the man with the jug of water whom the disciples were to follow. His hands shaped a jug over his head. He illustrated the arrest of Jesus by clapping his right hand over his left wrist...
...Hubbard has managed to obey almost every impulse that has popped into his head. It has not always led to the happiest results. His wife, for instance, once complained publicly that in a domestic tiff he had belabored her with a blackjack. The sheriff of Wayne County tried to jug him for not paying a $7,500 libel judgment, thus forcing him to set up a temporary government in exile at Windsor, Ont. (TIME, Aug. 21). And finally, a recall group began working for a special mayoralty election in the hope of throwing him out of office...
There was one hitch: neither Lindsay nor Petersen knew much about hot rods or publishing. By haunting Southern California race tracks, they learned the lingo, found that "herding a goat" meant driving an old racing car, that a "jug" was a carburetor, that a "featherfoot" had a light throttle touch. Then a neighborhood engraver showed them how to lay out pages; a printer taught them to proofread. With $859 scraped up from trusting advertisers and friends, Hot Rod magazine appeared in December...
Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer had twirled like a weathercock in a whirlwind over the problem of jug-eared Michael Lee, controversial chief of Commerce's Far Eastern Branch. Last spring, when a Senate subcommittee began gesturing at Lee's loyalty, Sawyer said: "He's one of our best men . . . We're ready to fight...
...Minneapolis, Michigan in a 7-7 tie with Minnesota, to retain its grip on the venerable Little Brown Jug...