Word: pouring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lecture hall was Surabaya's Rex Cinema, hot, humid and jampacked with soldiers. Britain's former Ambassador to Russia and next Ambassador to the U.S. stepped up to the speaker's stand. First he tried to pour himself a drink, but the cap on the bottle stuck. Next he asked for a reading lamp. It was brought, minus a shade. Sir Archibald borrowed a beret from an officer in the first row and placed it jauntily over the light. Then he began...
...basketball's greats. He seldom diagrams a play. Once, pressed to explain his "N.Y.U. system," he deadpanned: "Well, we throw the ball around a lot and do our best to put it in the basket." His real formula: hold the score down, wear 'em out, then pour...
Amid the sunshine and fruit trees on his 10,000-acre ranch near Arvin, Calif., Joseph Di Giorgio, 71, imperiously watched workmen pour concrete for what will be the world's largest winery...
...dead will be a testimony as to the purpose of the United States, that men in later generations may see we have not been unmindful of the necessity to stop aggression, that the world cannot remain half slave and half free, and that many were valiant enough to pour out their blood for freedom...
...weekends when skiing conditions are good, the special snow trains of the Boston & Maine railroad pour as many as 3,000 skiers into North Conway. They sleep in the Skimobile house and even in the village jail. And they wilt spend about $2,500,000 this season in the village stores...