Word: loaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were well enough tore almost ravenously into a good French meal. When they had finished, some heroes of the great battle came back to the galleys with hands outstretched, pleading for more. One legionnaire carefully stored his bread crumbs in a cellophane bag, and a Frenchman held up a loaf and cried: "Bread! To me, messieurs, this is cake...
...fishing column, he also found time to write stories on the handicapped and chivvy personnel managers into hiring them. As a result, Houston employers hired 2,280 handicapped people in 1953. When a crippled vet gets out of a hospital in Houston, boasts Anderson, "he don't loaf more than 36 hours." For those still in the hospital, Anderson puts on a wild-game dinner every fall. Last year he fed 5,000 disabled veterans on 100 deer, 1,500 ducks and numerous quail, geese and elk, all shot by a small army of veterans under Anderson...
...Viet Minh could mount an offensive against the Red River Delta or drive westward into Laos. Whenever the West showed signs of impatience, they could throw another crumb on the table. If the West finally got disgusted and moved toward intervention, the Communists could always accept the half-loaf that France was all too willing to give them...
...almost everything by ten thousands." But when the new Athenians really want to enjoy themselves, they make for the Koon Kreek Klub, an exclusive (i.e., mostly millionaires) tract of wilderness near Athens. There, Murchison, Richardson and such other Athenians as Oilman Ike La Rue and Lease Broker George Greer loaf around simple cabins in sports shirts or old clothes, play gin rummy for 1? a point, kid each other about their waistlines, and fish for bream (pronounced "brim" in Texas, and a member of the sunfish family). With guides to bait the hooks and take off the fish...
...system of course reduction had been building up since 1924 to satisfy the needs of more capable students. Faculty members heatedly argued whether students would loaf or work in the extra time provided by reduction. When the Faculty passed the program in 1924 they specified that extra time was only for guided work under the tutor, not for shortening a student's term of residence. But a few still had visions of beer drinking replacing listening to lectures, and a Student Council report in 1926 warned of the dangers of a "glorified country club." In action, however, the program seemed...