Word: loafers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio car to the police station, where he hoarsely announced: "I can buy and sell the lot of you, and I'm going to do it, too." After kicking a cop in the shins, Nicky was calmed down. He gave his age as 22, his occupation as "loafer," his pleasure as getting sprung for $1,000 bribe (declined). Booked as a common drunk, Nicky was taken to county jail with exactly $14.16 in his jeans...
...greatest feat of construction by Negroes. Christophe's labor force, mostly sugar workers, toiled from dawn to dusk to keep his treasury solvent. Once the King spotted, far below him, a subject asleep in the door of a hut. A 56-pounder was loaded, aimed, touched off; loafer and house vanished...
...Roman dress. No more stuffy white shirts--a black, heavy shirt with the top button tied and the collar points narrow fits smoothly underneath a cordaroy brown. Let a bright handkerchief hang from the pocket. Keep the pants light, bright, and your shoes a plain, smart dress loafer...
...council decides to fire Pascal unless the whole senior class passes the government examination for a graduation certificate. As an added obstacle, they insist that Albert, a boy whom they consider the village loafer, also pass. Actually, association with Pascal has made a new boy of Albert, and he passes with the rest after making a Tom Paine-type speech eulogizing Pascal and freedom...
...Dailies," and set out, as one editor put it, "to arouse the 'gee whiz!' emotion." The Examiner's boss rushed special trains to cover out-of-town fires, ran up enormous cable tolls. He wrote boob-catching headlines like A SUNDAY SUICIDE OF A LOVESICK LOAFER. On the premise that "there is no substitute for circulation," he spent his father's money like a drunken prospector-then made it back, as circulation multiplied...