Word: mow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handyman. In Spokane, Disc-Jockey Robert Swartz, who had offered to do any odd jobs for listeners recognizing a popular tune played backwards, faced the prospect, after 18 people guessed right, of having to roof a house, iron some shirts, mow a lawn, repair a fishpond and weed a strawberry patch...
Alben Barkley saw Harry Truman off at the station. "Mow 'em down, Harry," Alben advised. "I'm going to fight hard. I'm going to give them hell," promised the President. "You ought not to say 'hell,' " daughter Margaret admonished her father. Senator Barkley suggested: "It is going to be a victorious trip." Said Harry Truman briskly: "Yes, sir. It is going...
...love of her, he also signs a phony confession to a supposedly phony murder. When the murder turns out to be real, Orson finds himself caught in a frame and the toils of the law. He escapes, literally, through an optical illusion: the real villains of the piece mow each other down in an amusement park's House of Mirrors...
...those 40 years, Principal Walton has kept his school rigorously faithful to Quakerism. He himself lives so strictly and simply that even greying alumni are embarrassed to smoke in front of him. His 421 students-about half boys and half girls-do their own chores, wait on table, mow lawns, and clerk in the school store. For eight weeks each year, in place of English classes, they get special religious instruction: a study of ancient religions, selections from the Old Testament, the life and teaching of Jesus, the history and teachings of Quakerism...
...opposition stayed drunk for three full days. Purpose of this blueprinted binge was not escape, but sabotage of the hated measure (a mild bill for government control of Japan's coal mines). When the Speaker called for a preliminary vote, alcoholic catcalls greeted him. Then surow mow (slow motion) set in. Opposition members slowly sauntered to the ballot box. One of them, loudly complaining of an injured leg, took two minutes to climb the six-step rostrum to the ballot box. Others, magnificently squiffed, zigzagged through the chamber, stopped to chat with friends en route...