Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...housewife's prejudice against beet sugar, her belief that it is inferior to cane, was admitted by Senator Smoot. He narrated: "Once I took a sack of beet sugar to my wife who rejected it, saying she did not like to cook with beet sugar...
Later I took the sack off and gave her the same sugar. I said 'Mama, that's very much better sugar than I first sent, isn't it?' and she said...
...could still sack the lot if I were not satisfied...
...could still "sack the lot" because, hale at 82, he was retaining his majority of Guardian stock, and his office of "governing director" (publisher). Nor was the editorship passing far from his touch. To fill his shoes Editor Scott had trained up his son, Edward Taylor Scott, now 45, a quiet, Oxford-educated economist...
Ticknor has developed into the team's most consistent extra base hitter. Of the 15 sateties he has garnered this year, seven of them have been good for more than one sack, and on four of them he has completed the circuit. McGrath is the leading run scorer and has also made more hits than any of his teammates...