Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days when the Crimson eleven was accustomed to sweep all its contests except the game with Yale, who has spoiled nine undefeated varsity seasons, the most constant threat for an upset victory was Pop Warner's unorthodox team from the Carlisle Indian School...
...politics and was put away for two years, although Doric always said, "He done it in self-defense." In 1944, to avenge another killing, Webb and a friend shot down a man in broad daylight at Hen's Corner, a moonshine saloon in the county seat of Manchester (pop. 1,706). Under oath Webb testified so roguishly, with such good humor, that they both went free...
Underneath, the accords wore the look of deep cooperation between Moscow and Peking. Most of the points were Russian concessions. The Russians agreed: ¶ To evacuate their ice-free Manchurian naval base at Port Arthur (pop. 142,000) by the end of next May, thereby ending a ten-year military occupation. ¶ To extend another $130 million in long-term credits to Peking. ¶ To sell back (for easy payments of Chinese exports) their share of four joint Soviet-Chinese companies in Red China now that the Chinese "can themselves manage the activity of enterprises." This was on the surface...
...with an intimacy of detail that makes fine reading even of such simple events as pitching camp or building a fire. Author Lott spares the reader nothing-every gush of blood from a stricken buffalo's mouth, the way a carcass explodes in the sun "with a great pop and sigh," the mechanical difficulties of skinning an Indian. This is no mere western yarn, and there are no heroics about Lett's hunters: Charley kills because he finds his manhood in killing, Sandy with an uneasy distaste for the waste. Though the dialogue is occasionally as awkward...
Speaking of Hastie, Hunt said, "Neil thinks that money is just going to pop up out of nowhere when it is needed, just because it is for religion. We can't run a program or plan a budget on assurance of that kind...