Word: melons
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Half an hour later, the first rescuers and firemen toiled up the rutted road to the mesa's top. A Coast Guard plane had flown over and told them what to expect. It looked, said one of them, "as if you had thrown a ripe melon against a wall." The plane had splattered its smoking pieces over five acres. All 44 passengers and six crewmen were dead...
...Sung-yun is a professional storyteller, one of those who, troubadour-like, spin wondrous yarns for China's listeners. At Nanking's tea houses, sipping tea and cracking melon seeds, Kan unfolded a repertory that ranged from ancient sagas of Homeric scope to the modern story of a nude, female ghost that would have done credit to Thome ("Topper") Smith. But spectacled "Dim-Eyed Kan" was too bright for his own good...
...office. An accountant for the racketeers in the Cuban bolita (a version of numbers in which small numbered balls are shaken up in a burlap bag) told the committee that one weekly expense item meant money for the sheriff, scornfully designated in the books as "Cabeza de melon" or "Melon-head...
Mamazan has a tractor. Grain yields have doubled, cucumber yields multiplied by six. DDT saved the latest melon crop. A young American, Theodore Noe, is the organizer of Mamazan's progress. He represents the Near East Foundation, a private organization backed by voluntary contributions. The N.E.F. put up $20,000 to help Mamazan. Impressed by what the $20,000 bought, Iran's government put a whopping $400,000 into the N.E.F.'s work A ten-year-old who had gone to Noe's school said proudly: "I can teach my father how to transplant lettuce...
...mayor's Cadillac was appointed Seventh Deputy Police Commissioner, forthwith applied for retirement on the $6,000-a-year pension of a commissioner. O'Dwyer's other driver and his bodyguard, $5,150-a-year detectives, were also appointed deputy police commissioners, entitled to the same melon-sized pensions. As for O'Dwyer's executive secretary, the mayor created a $10,000-a-year...