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Word: sackful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said one worker: "There is urgent work to do: anyone can see there are no houses; the water supply has broken down; land needs reclaiming; we must have sanitation. And we are building a road that is parallel to another." Explained another: ". . . They make us do useless work, then sack us because it is useless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Blood in the Palace | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

When Ecuador's Constitutional Assembly met in Quito last fortnight to name the country's next President, the Conservative majority was all primed to sack dictatorial President José Maria Velasco Ibarra. Conservative Boss Mariano Suárez Veintimilla had passed the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: As Simple As That | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Psychiatry rushed into World War II as a bumptious big-talking rookie, then turned out to be the Sad Sack of military medicine. This is the verdict of two ex-majors among the 2,400 psychiatrists who served in the U.S. Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Sad Sacks | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...heartily sick of this talk of Russia and the democracies not being able to understand each other. Stalin has surrounded himself with as intelligent a group of banditti as ever started out to sack and dominate the universe. . . . They are ... keen of intellect, devoid of truth, moral precepts, ethical standards, and humanitarian motives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1946 | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...stick is likely to be more effective than the carrot. It may be true that one reason why people will not work hard is that they can buy so little with their wages. But it is much more true that they will not work because the fear of the sack [of being fired] has vanished from the land, and because the Bankruptcy Court is a depressed area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE CARROT AND THE STICK | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

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