Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolver, then the roar of four shotguns in the hands of prison guards. Convicts scattered frantically, flopping to the ground, diving under the buildings for cover. One made the barbed-wire-topped fence before a cursing guard, kicking loose a jam in his weapon, blasted him down with a load of buckshot...
...home for a visit, but could not pay the $130 fare charged by the regular airline. By crowding them into converted Army transports, however, chartered lines could carry them and make money at only $50 a head. Puerto Ricans are small, and CAA agreed that the nonscheduled planes could load up to the maximum allowable weight, regardless of number, if there was a seat and a safety belt for each passenger...
These questions face the Congress as well as the State Department. As usual, however, the Department carries the unpopular load of responsibility on its none-too-sturdy shoulders. As George Marshall faced doubting and irate Congressmen last week he might have reflected that he was not the first Secretary of State to be where he found himself. Henry Adams had noted...
Sometimes carry the biggest load-the U.S.A...
...Between last June 28, when the Crimson champions assembled in the same boat for the last time as a unit, and the spring of 1948 when the U. S. representative is chosen, a lot of water--pardon the expression--will pass under the Larz Anderson Bridge. And the shell-load Coach Tom Bolles will finally call his "number one beat" for competition as the Varsity next spring will have unfamiliar figures in at least three slides--stroke, four, and two--as well as a new coxswain...