Word: laden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Traditionally liquor-laden college students have abdicated their alcoholic throne in favor of the State Department...
...From Britain, herself heavily stricken (300 dead), came boats, planes, and engineering supplies as well. In one day the R.A.F. flew in some 50,000 sandbags. U.S. motorized columns raced across Germany's Autobahnen into The Netherlands to lend a hand, while fleets of Flying Boxcars roared in laden with life rafts, serums, and other vital supplies. The Netherlands War Ministry promised each G.I. the same daily bonus (26? and a package of cigarettes) that the Dutch soldiers got for flood relief work, but the offer was turned down...
When Schweppes asked him to take over, he was "intrigued." The first thing he did was get more sugar by a series of complicated trading transactions, "all legal, of course." Then he began to advertise heavily with Schweppigrams* and hired Stephen (Gamesmanship) Potter to write pun-laden ads about an imaginary locality called Schweppshire, with such landmarks as Schwepsom Downs, Schwepping Forest and Schwepstow Castle (noted because "Queen Elizabeth Schwept here"), and peopled by such notables as the poet Schwinburne and the author of the "Schweppshire Lad." With such high jinks Hooper tripled sales, and profits last year Schwept...
...time for the raucous cries of a quarterback, the groans of heavily-laden gentlemen smashing each other on hot May afternoons, and the dull grind and drill that is spring practice. Athletes at least receive rewards in intercollegiate competition in season; if spring practice's adherents were logical, they might suggest that Harvard play football against Yale in spring as well as fall...
...result, murkily photographed in a process called Exotic Color, is a harem-scarum movie featuring girls in Arabian nighties, goats-milk baths, and raids on caravans laden with gold. The dialogue seems more Hollywood than Bagdad. Sample: "Sire, I have uncovered such crimes as will tear this town wide open...