Word: rowse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The doctor asked the crowd to leave. As the last figures disappeared, Bill Yancey was hauled slowly up the shaft. In his arms was a small, blanketed form. Tenderly he laid the bundle on a white pillow in the back of a black car. In silence, the car rolled slowly...
Old Circus Horse. Sharp at 8:45 p.m., his shoe-button eyes twinkling and his walrus mustache abristle, Monteux bounced in the front door. He dodged around a full-sized replica of a cable car, wheeled down the main aisle between two rows of beaming debutantes. The San Francisco Chronicle...
Getting in to a new Broadway hit often takes patience, pleading-or a hefty premium that is many times the price of admission. Tickets disappear first at the box office, then at the large, reputable ticket brokers (who, unlike many of their smaller, shadier colleagues, charge no more than the...
In the front yard of one of many rows of neat new grey tile-roofed houses near the epicenter, I saw a young man doing his own laundry. He was Shinji Hamaguchi, 23, a former medical student and now a drugstore clerk. The A-bomb killed his parents and nine...
Last week thousands of dead cattle lay in tumbled rows on the arctic barrens of the great plains; thousands of dead sheep were buried on the plateaus and in the snow-choked valleys of the Rocky Mountain states. Whole herds and flocks of weak and starving animals had been without...