Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nova Scotian seamen this was serious business. The Quero Bank is the mainstay of their fresh fish industry. It is close enough to shore (just over 200 miles) for them to chug out, ice down a load of cod, haddock and halibut, and get back in five to six days. If foreign trawlers continued to shove them off Quero, Canadians would have to go twice as far, to the Grand Bank off Newfoundland, for less profitable salt...
Some of you seem to regard us as a court of last resort for settling your wagers on every conceivable subject. We are even asked to lighten the load of parents beset with the one-track vagaries of small boydom. Wrote one of them to us recently, in some desperation: "I have a ten-year-old son who (collects) military insignia. . . . For the past six months our name has been a byword in Downers Grove (Ill.). People start suddenly and streak for home when they see any of us approaching. No one is safe from our friendly, but firm...
...chewing, lip-smacking Daily News had the last word. Said the News: "Memoirs is [Edmund Wilson's] first score on the best-seller list, and the only reason it was there for several weeks is because word got around that oh, boy, you ought to get a load of this...
When that midnight-snacker pays an extra nickel for a hamburger seven times a week, he is only buying a little time for that thirty-five cents. No great load of hamburg will ever be dumped on the market as long as cattle-raisers have reason to expect greater profits by holding off. By refusing to pay for the luxury of immediate delivery, by making it a point to get by only on cheaper products through trade with more conscientious merchants, today's customers will find their coffers lined with more than cobwebs when tomorrow's sunnier hours arrive...
Cellists who are used to the old jokes about struggling into subways with their bulky instruments will find the electro-cello no better. It weighs 50 lbs. and requires enough amplifying equipment to load a small truck...