Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most poignant memory of our first day at Radcliffe concerns the ladders of Briggs Hall. On the first trip up to the fourth deck we labored with a load of luggage. The second jaunt was a struggle to keep a toehold under a four-foot stack of publications. Last cargo hauled by this Naval Transportation Service was fifteen pounds of bedding...
...Norwich, Conn., Undertaker C. A. Gager abandoned a longdistance trip because ODT refused him a supplemental gas ration unless he could be sure of a return load...
...replace box-office stars gone to war, every club had to load up with run-of-the-mill players brought up from the minors or oldsters rescued from oblivion. Cleveland Indians Manager Lou Boudreau had to put a sportswriter at third base to muster two teams for a practice game. The Giants desperately and futilely combed the field for a proper first baseman. The Brooklyn Dodgers congratulated themselves on having acquired one player (Bobby Bragan) who could double as catcher and shortstop, an other (42-year-old John Cooney) who provided triple insurance as pitcher, outfielder and first baseman. Said...
...feverish impatience and petty willfulness, ignores his sardonic mind, his serpentine guile, his high pride of villainy. Jerky and rapid of speech, Hunchback-of-Notre-Dame-like in movement, he exudes evil rather than expresses it. He is too unimpressive for a figure that has to carry the whole load of the play on his crooked back...
...friend, Mr. A. V. Alexander of the Admiralty to tell us that all's well and the Navy's there. Then, optimism breaking out like a rash over the face of the press, his ever-loving colleague, Mr. Ernie Bevin . . . has to come clattering down like a load of bricks on our heads to tell us that we're too complacent and that times are going to get even tougher. Now if Alex and Ernie could only arrange to make a bookkeeping entry instead of a newspaper story, thus canceling each other out without publication, we soldiers...