Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flattening the rails under the thrust of its screeching brakes, Bill Elaine's bullet-nosed diesel locomotive ripped through the steel rear Pullman like gutting a catfish and buckled the lighter diner ahead. Said a priest: "I saw bodies . . . decapitated . . . crushed beyond human shape." The total death toll...
This week U.S. housewives would begin to feel the pinch. A cut in bread deliveries was the bakers' first step. Until bakers could set their ovens and machines to produce lighter loaves, until they could shift more flour from pastries and other products, there would probably be a bread shortage in many communities. But all these measures were by hindsight. They would add no kernels to the grain the U.S. had promised to deliver to the famine lands. At best, they would do no more than avert a failure to meet U.S. commitments...
...much like me I made him give it to me," she says. "It had a little feather in place of a tail, and eyes that looked like the china eyes of a doll when its head is broken. . . . Tanguy also designed a little phallic drawing for my cigaret lighter which he had Dunhill engrave. It is the smallest Tanguy in the world...
...weights will be seven weight classes plus the unlimited, or heavy-weight category. The team at present is without a heavyweight, and Thomas said that a lighter man would have to wrestle in the position. The entire squad, he declared, could use some bolstering in man power, as only 19 men are now out. He is issuing a call for any men, whether experienced...
Lured by a $3 raise, he shifted to the advertising department, later worked for several Cleveland ad agencies. By the time he was 40, he was making $20,000 a year and was ready to move to Manhattan. He did so, as president of Manhattan's Clarke Lighter Co., just in time to have it collapse under him during the depression...