Word: potted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within half an hour MacWilliams was winging south toward Nanking. There he waited nearly four hours for gasoline. He ate a meal of rice and meat stew scooped out of a big pot in the chow tent, and at regular intervals argued with the ground crewmen to get going on gassing. By noon he was on his way back to Suchow with another load of rice...
...plaintiff countered with an affidavit of his own. The night the medical statement was received, he claimed, Jesse had sat up until 2 in the morning playing poker with the boys, and drinking "large quantities of whiskey." The stakes ranged high, and once Jesse "backed a straight in a pot involving . . . $4,000 against four fours ... [a practice] which has never been recommended as a cure for heart trouble." Next day the judge called Jesse to the witness stand...
...pot roast at lunch was tender and tasty, but for all the. effect it had on Robert Maynard Hutchins, it might have been fire & brimstone. At the annual National Conference of U.S. Editorial Writers in Louisville, Ky. last week, the University of Chicago's chancellor gave the banqueting journalists hell, with bells...
...days Colorado's valleys and pine-clad mountain slopes had echoed the whap-whap of rifles. The big game season was on, and it was Colorado's biggest ever. About 100,000 armed men roamed the fields, hundreds poked their guns through barnyard fences to take pot shots at anything that moved...
...full credit for inspiring her recent article. "I'm fascinated by the way those kids manage to put on a good show in spite of all sorts of obstacles," she said. As HDC patroness she has had to undertake all sorts of odd jobs, notably the furnishing of a pot for one production and providing a room, her office, for HDC rehearsals...