Word: loading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buchanan noted that the students are not being employed merely to help the library keep abreast of the work load at Widener...
...rockets, ammunition and firearms was airlifted into Puerto Cabezas by unmarked U.S. C-54s, C-46s and C-47s, in such quantities that on some days last month planes required momentary stacking. During Easter week, 27 U.S. C124 Globemasters roared in three or four at a time to off-load full cargoes of rations, blankets, ammunition and medical supplies at the U.S.-built airstrip at Retalhuleu, at Guatemala City and at Guatemala's San José airbase...
Norman, the new Lion pitcher, struck out Gavin Gilmore and Tom Boone, but then walked both Drummey and Rodgers Morse singled to load the bases and the stage was set for Martin. The varsity captain smacked a long drive down the left field line--but it was foul by a foot. When Martin grounded out on the next pitch the game was over...
...last week Red Cross stretcher-bearers picked up their load and headed across the railroad bridge linking Red China with Hong Kong. Loudspeakers on the Chinese side opened up with martial airs. But on the stretcher, Robert Ezra McCann appeared to hear neither the music nor his wife's whisper, "Now we are out." He stared blankly into the China skies. After ten years in Red China's jails, McCann was free...
...embellishment, taking small facts and inflating them into outrageous acts of hyperbole. When one of her boys came home with a dead horseshoe crab, she put it down the Dispose-All in fact, but in print she claimed it had been stored in the Bendix and washed with a load of sheets. "You take the thing, touch it up, improve it," she says, "and turn it the way you want...