Word: passel
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...Baker explained the enigmatic request: he wanted to make the point that digging for scientific evidence takes as much persistence as drilling for oil. Said he: "It might be said that Mr. Jacobsen found a 'passel' of oil. Likewise, the practitioner who is familiar with his field and is willing to search for details . . . will find a 'passel' of Marie-Strumpell arthritis...
Carlotta, the Enigmatic Mother, was a frisky and fashionable actress living a life of frantic emptiness. And the Disagreeable Suitors were a passel of New York busybodies, creatures on the make. From this situation Novelist Sykes, an urbane critic of the U.S. urban way of life, has spun a quiet and thoughtful novel...
...whole passel of notables, headed by Defense Secretary George Marshall, Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder, four state governors, 15 generals, two admirals and seven former American Legion commanders, jammed into Dawson to pay their respects to big Erle and watch a two-mile-long parade which included everything from fancy-gaited horses to drum majorettes who, on a chilly afternoon, wore more goose pimples than clothes...
McLaughry's biggest pre-season headache, and one which still plagues him, was to find two offensive ends to fill in for the graduated Dave Beeman and Red Rowe. Between them, Beeman and Roweset a passel of Ivy League receiving marks while snaring Clayton passes last year as the Big Green registered six victories against two losses...
...more than 40 years, Dr. John Zahorsky had specialized in pediatrics and practiced in big St. Louis hospitals. Now 79, Dr. Zahorsky was back in his old home town, bent on proving that an alert country doctor can do as much with a minimum of modern equipment as a passel of specialists with all the shiny facilities of a big-city hospital...