Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oxford crew from 180 to 154 Ibs., forced it to order the lightest shell ever for the historic race with Cambridge (see SPORT). King George VI decreed that Ascot, once the world's swankest racing meet (grey toppers, lobster and champagne) would be held "strictly on austerity lines" (sack suits and sandwiches...
Male styles stayed dourly conservative. In 1946, as in 1945 and before that, men will wear sack coats without vests, topped by cloth caps in unrelieved dark shades. Hats, when worn, will be high-crowned, narrow-brimmed...
...What," asked Kieran, "is the mean approximate distance from the earth to the moon?" (Answer: 239,000 miles.) "Who served the shortest term in the Presidency?" (Answer: William Henry Harrison.) After twelve such questions the guests, who had been served dry sack, Riesling, Burgundy, champagne, brandy and liqueurs, laid down their pencils with a collective sigh. Forty schoolteachers took over the job of correcting papers...
When Field also lost a job as barkeep in Canberra's Hotel Kingston, he charged that the Brigadier had brought pressure through a brewery to have the hotel sack him. His wife (once the Governor-General's cook) also found she could not land a job. The Fields complained to the Canberra Trades & Labor Council that they were being "victimized" by the Brigadier...
...fiction writers laid one golden egg after another and sold them for golden prices. The public craved, and was given, gulps of cloak-&-dagger melodrama or sack-suit passion. Some of the year's novelists managed, with the help of book clubs and cinemagnates, to earn a life annuity with a single book. Among the bestsellers...