Word: potted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upstairs for drinks, cigarettes and neckties-just like Sherm's customers. Said José: "I sat entranced. I never saw anything so pretty." Sherm advised them to vote against the union. They did. The day after the election, he gave them $100 apiece, and $500 to the head pot-wrestler...
...Palaces. The pilots were blond, boyish Clifford Evans, 27, an ex-A.A.F. pilot, and stubby, pot-bellied George Truman*, 39, a veteran flying instructor. Last summer they wangled two used Super Cruiser airframes from Piper Aircraft, engines from Lycoming, Gyrosyn compasses from Sperry and radio, equipment from Bendix. They ripped out the passenger seat behind the pilot's seat and installed 100-gallon tanks, packed in a few charts, radio spares, a can of dope (i.e., glue) for repairing the wing fabric, one good suit and a white shirt apiece. Early in August, they kissed their wives goodbye...
Publicity-wise Diego Rivera, whose varied tastes have led him to paint Lenin in a Rockefeller Center mural and to advocate cannibalism, last week chalked up a new achievement. He took a pot shot at a Mexico City bus driver-something many a Mexican has always wanted...
...Uncle Wells arrived always a little out of breath, with his arms full of parcels, sometimes rather carelessly tied, but always bursting with all manner of attractive gifts that ranged from the little pot of sweet jelly that is Mr. Polly to the complete Meccano set for the mind that is in The First Men on the Moon. . . . One had, in actual fact, the luck to be young just as the most bubbling creative mind . . . since the days of Leonardo da Vinci was showing its form...
When despair and bouncing checks begin to plague the card-fancier, he often takes deluded refuge in a poker game called "barber's itch." Here two people split the pot, and the rest split blue chips into red chips and red chips into bits of grimy paper...