Word: loading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dave Coombs, new to the top floor of the black house, has shouldered the lightweight load and carried it far, pinning his three opponents for the high score, and only perfect record, of the season...
...British motorists, the Government's ending of the "basic petrol ration" last fall had seemed the last heartbreaking straw in the load of enforced joylessness. Except for business and in hardship cases, they would not get one drop of gas for their cars. Even "basic" had been skimpy. The driver of a 30-miles-to-the-gallon Austin could go only 270 miles a month. With the end of "basic" he had nothing for a drive to the station, an occasional shopping trip, or a weekend spin in the country with the family...
...Drain Trouble." At a recent house party in Gloucestershire, one guest drove up with a load of hay, another with a batch of butter. One Manchester builder always carries drainpipes in the back of his car and wears overalls over his natty $75 suit. Officially, he is always on his way to or from "drain trouble." An enterprising publican near Birmingham bought a hayrick, stuck it in a nearby field, and advertised it "for sale." Farmers could drive to the field to inspect the hayrick and, incidentally, drop into the pub for a pint...
Unlike the outfits of other colleges, they take the financial load of buying ammunition, targets, and rifles on themselves, and even provide their own transportation to their few shoulder-to-shoulder matches. Flat wallets, however, have kept them to mail matches for the most part, and the enthusiastic group isn't happy about...
...first to express his denunciation in definite, well-publicized terms. He ably points out that being an asset to some government department and being a valuable member of a university faculty are far from one and the same thing. Nor should the "armed truce" atmosphere in the world today load to panic-stricken curtailments of freedom, academic or otherwise...