Word: pocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Highballing along behind the second bus was a trailer-tanker truck, and at the wheel was 54-year-old Roscoe Poe, who had made a delivery of linseed oil to New York and was hauling his tanker back to Philadelphia. Roscoe Poe's driving history was pock-marked with traffic violations and convictions: in the past five years, he had committed at least seven moving violations (speeding, passing red lights, etc.) in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. But there he was, still driving-and driving a truck with bad brakes...
...remembers only the shop preparing pork cutlets. Women work here. Silent, unsmiling, strained faces. Their hands automatically are raised and then lowered, again raised and with difficulty chop off a piece of meat from the inexorably moving carcasses on the conveyor belt. Blood runs down on the dirty, pock-marked cement floor. The monotonous humming of the conveyor, the hoarse breathing of the women meat workers, and the stagnant stench of the poorly ventilated premises...
...thickly set in hay or grain fields, damage mowing and harvesting machines. They get into fodder and sting the cattle that try to eat it or the humans that handle it. In places where they are thick, farmers cannot get laborers to work in the fields. In suburbs they pock lawns with their mounds, bite children playing on the grass...
...poured in, Brundage tried to backtrack: "There is no desire to interfere with those who intend to pursue a legitimate career in physical education, sport administration, press, radio, etc." Just when aspiring pros became illegitimate, Brundage did not say. ¶ Spinning the ball with a vicious kick off the pock-marked turf of Manchester's Old Trafford cricket pitch, England's Jim Laker had Australian batsmen making the long walk to the wicket as if it were a short walk to the gallows. In the deciding match of the Test series, he skittled out the Aussies (taking nine...
...Democratic Sector of Greater Berlin," a harsh female voice boomed from the loudspeaker in the station. The scene outside was no different from the pat of West Berlin just behind--miles of pock-market buildings and gaping spaces or rubble--except that the heavy traffic was gone, and here long blue signs hung from the upper stories of many structures, proclaiming in three-foot letters...