Word: popping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grounders were bouncing off gloves like bric-a-brac off the Eliot House tower. Pop flies were acting like coy Annex sophomores. The freshmen couldn't get their hands on anything...
...Salem, Ore., theater owners denounced as un-American a bill to ban pop corn & peanuts from movie houses. In Washington, the C.I.O.'s shirt-sleeved Political Action Committee moved to fancy new quarters formerly occupied by the Dewey-Warren committee...
Georgia's Grand Dragon Samuel Green, the demagogic Atlanta physician, had branched out and set up a Klavern of 25 or 30 members in the growing cotton town of Thomson (pop. 5,000), Ga. Last week an ad, signed by 104 residents of Thomson (including most of the members of the city council and the chief of police), appeared in the town's weekly newspaper, the McDuffie Progress. What Thomson's leading citizens had to say was that their Ku Klux neighbors had better put away their bed sheets...
...those out of range resumed their interrupted conversations, while others, in range, stared across their food & drink in joyless apathy. When Artie picked up his clarinet for a solo, his fans perked up; but out came Nicolai Berezowsky's concerto, and interest palled. Then flashbulbs began to pop; first-night celebrities queued up to have their pictures taken with new Cinemactor Kirk (Champion) Douglas...
...fifth when Moffie opened the inning with his triple. He was doubled off third when Cavanaugh lined to Formon. Crosby opened the ninth with a single and was forced by pinch-hitter Gordy Ellis. In between, nine Crimson batters fanned and the rest were rubbed out on infield pop-ups or grounders...