Word: rug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bruised, hungry-and occasionally punctured by bullets-one Harry Holcomb of Trail Creek took it easy at home. He was rewarded. A 250-lb. bear ambled into his parlor at 4 a.m.; Holcomb leaped out of bed, grabbed his rifle, firedand dropped the bear right where he wanted a rug...
...fiend : cft. Vag looked at the frayed spot in the rug. So grieved was the coming thing. Who was he, Vag, to act his face against progress? Cronin...
...Gazing at the rich fur rug on her knees," Ethel answered warmly, "Very nice...
Although they were voted down this year in the Republican City Committee 47-13, they went ahead and joined the New Boston Committee, a non-partisan organization that endorsed seven Democrats and two Republicans. Fine as this choice may sound, it pulled the rug out from under the other three Republicans running. Boston GOP voters (who have never numbered less than 75,000 regardless of how many have registered as such) were misled by the Shattuck-Forbes, Lund endorsement of the NBC into believing that their party was supporting Democrats. This split the GOP vote and three of the five...
...reward . . . But we are up against the boys in the political engine room [who] are offering all kinds of patronage, from postmasterships to U.S. attorneys' posts to all and sundry who will back their man." All Scott asked on behalf of Eisenhower supporters was "an assurance that the rug won't be pulled out from under their activities by any contrary statement from overseas...