Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howards, said Dawkins, began to talk tough and Tom Howard started filling his sack. Dawkins called Deputy Sheriff Combs, whose last words (to Tom Howard) were: "If you persist in this, I'll have to arrest you." Police Chief A. S. Sizemore arrested Frank Howard on a charge of murder...
...second base a genuine battle royal seems to be in the offing, with Sam Merrill, Bud Finegan, and Jimmy Lynch as the contenders. Artie Johns' graduation leaves a big hole to plug at the keystone sack, and one of these boys will have to fill the bill. Over at third, Sophomore Gil Whittemore and former Jayvee Cliff Helman will be struggling to fill the gap left by Dick Grondahl's departure. Another infield hopeful is Tom Shrewsbury...
...sets up with uncommon sensuous clarity a country and a people: Ogden's father, in one of the few gentle gestures of his life, caressing his mother's new grave with the flat of his shovel; "a fat untidy young woman, loose around the waist as a sack of duck feathers"; a man who, catching his wife in adultery, "fired a shot into the ceiling, and then he began to weep, assuring Jinny he wouldn't hurt a hair of her head...