Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lordship, a gaunt, stoop-shouldered six-footer, hovered over all calculations like a specter. Said a Liverpool stevedore, wiping ale from his mustaches: "The worst rider in the world . . . just like a sack of potatoes jouncing up & down." Not everybody agreed; his Lordship had ridden no less than 32 winners one season. But things were always happening when he rode in the National. In 1936, a rein buckle broke as he led the field to the last jump, and his mount ran right off the course. Riding Cromwell last year, he seemed to have the big race...
...nature of the "contest" for which said photograph was submitted. My political aspirations are in no way to be connected with the World Federalists Group and I have no intention of going through with this "contest" as it is extremely distasteful to me to be auctioned off like a sack of potatoes to the man who can write the best letter of why he is not going to the dance. Furthermore, I am not "Miss Radeliffe...
Both pictures are also notable for music scores by Max Steiner. His melodic style makes the background much more than the usual dramatic cliches. It is a great and rare feeling to sit through a double feature and see two good films. Edward J. Sack...
...official proceedings, broadcast over the 'Poon's public address system, were somewhat marred by rival CRIMSON loudspeakers established in adjoining Adams and Lowell rooms. Later, after the members of the newly-formed "State of Lampoon" had retired behind their barbed wire and sawdust sack fortifications, these barricades were breached by a determined charge, which reached the front door of the building and obtained half of the "State of Lampoon" banner before the cessation of hostilities...
...matter seemed to be a bit of contract fine print that club owners like to call the cornerstone of big-time baseball: the so-called "reserve clause" that binds a player to his club for his baseball life-or until the club chooses to trade, sell or sack him. Purpose: to prevent a few rich clubs from hiring all the talent-as they well might if each ballplayer were always free to sell his services in the highest market. Cornerstone or not, two out of three judges decided that the reserve clause looked like peonage. They ordered the lower court...