Word: lotta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shuffleboard game. Then Granillo tossed a couple of heavy shuffleboard weights across the crowded room. Bartender Edgar Gray (at right behind bar) told him to clear out. Trying to scare Granillo, Gray pretended to call the cops. "He started coming toward me," said Gray. "He started calling me a lotta names. I got rattled." From behind the bar he grabbed a pistol, shot and killed Eugene Granillo. Police held Bartender Gray on a homicide charge...
...mind. Hell, when they (TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin) told me about doing a story, I said, 'Why bother about me? I'm a friend of the United States.' But they said they needed the story, so I said go ahead. Hell, that's a lotta propaganda - didn't cost me a penny...
...doubt about labor's part. Its politicos worked quietly, kept their names out of the papers, deliberately played down their activity for fear of antagonizing non-labor votes. But labor was united for common action as seldom before. Said one Illinois organizer: "In 1944 we made a lotta noise. In '48 we worked...
...Kong, a binge and hangover at Amoy. Flying in loose formation, they worked out a bit of dialogue to pass the time on their long hops. Cliff: "We're lost, but we're making good time." George: "We're broke, but we're having a lotta fun." On their most hazardous leg, 1,600 miles over open water between Japan and Shemya (near Attu), they got an escort of Army...
...whom once told his staff: "The boss says he's getting tired of old cliches. We gotta get a lotta new cliches...