Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great international figure and therefore must not be criticized, far less removed; I am unable to agree. International figures are made, not born. If you will make me Minister of Information with no more than the present powers over the press and radio, I will guarantee to make a sack of potatoes into an international figure inside of a fortnight...
...torpedo had blasted Wajda's ship, a U.S. merchantman, at night; shellfire pummeled her carcass. Shell fragments got Wajda in the head and ankle, rolled him overboard like a sack. He came to on a pitching raft where ship's Engineers Mahlon Benton and Lindgren Bancroft had dragged him. They rigged a sail of two big yellow quarantine flags, dressed Wajda's wounds, doled him out a supply of chocolate and hardtack...
...Barton Harvey, Jr., of Baltimore Md., named third Marshall, trailed Matters by 28 votes with a total of 210. Besides holding down the second sack on the baseball team, Harvey is a member of the Student Council, and Lampoon. He graduated from Hill School...
...Fitzgibbons is forced to the sidelines, Lou Clay will be Stahl's choice to guard the initial sack. Clay has had enough experience at that post, but his pitching duties have kept him occupied this spring...
...wowser is human. The Australian slang dictionary defines him (or her) as "a puritanical enthusiast, a bluestocking, a drab-souled Philistine haunted by the mockery of others." What the U.S. soldiers and their Empire mates have to say about him would burn holes in a postman's sack...