Word: pail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baptista Luzardo arrived at B.A.'s Lacroze railway station, he was met and embraced by Perón himself and cheered by thousands of descamisados (shirtless ones) specially summoned by the Strong Man to make a fraternal greeting to "the representative of Brazil's marmiteiros [dinner-pail carriers]." Luzardo responded by grabbing and kissing Argentine and Brazilian flags...
Empty Glass. The East and West Coasts suffered from a new shortage -milk. Returning G.I.s, who got little milk abroad, had helped boost consumption to a new high, just when production was at its seasonal low. The Department of Agriculture promised that the new year will bring a fuller pail...
...like real-estate deeds. Smuts tried his hand at casting a preamble on the model of the majestic prose which opens the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. The delegates liked the Smuts version. But meanwhile the preamble was being used as a sort of verbal garbage pail by all the drafting committees. Ideas which delegates wanted to introduce in other sections were put aside for inclusion in the preamble...
Schwartz took a garbage pail, a frying pan, a length of stovepipe, an electric motor and two pulleys, put them all together, produced a rotary snowplow that could also mow a lawn...
...charged businessmen $200 a page for eulogy, $50 apiece for a picture, then sold copies for $5. Last winter he set out to raise $100,000 for a statue to Negro soldiers of World War II. That time he had to back off from the tree with an empty pail-Seattle's Negroes complained that the project was not their idea and wanted nothing...