Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black sateen shirt, coat, vest, and pants, a slouch hat, good shoes and socks, no underwear, in my pockets a small bar of soap, a razor, a comb, a pocket mirror, two handkerchiefs, a piece of string, needles and thread, a Waterbury watch, a knife, a pipe and a sack of tobacco, three dollars and twenty-five cents in cash...
...Gerot thinks that nothing promotes flour sales like a baking contest. Last week, for the finals of its annual contest, Pillsbury brought 100 winners, including one man and four boys, to Manhattan to compete for $129,000 in prizes in its Grand National Bake-Off. They were given flour-sack aprons, assigned to stoves in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom and allowed a day to make their favorite recipes. Mrs. Richard M. Nixon, wife of the Vice President-elect, announced the winner: Mrs. Peter S. Harlib, 46, wife of a Chicago policeman. Her prizewinning recipe: Snappy Turtle Cookies...
...bank clerk decided to move up the street. He motioned to the little old lady who scurried over. With a quick, deft hand she dumped the change into an enormous, hitherto concealed sack...
...position and delivers a large litter of tiny (20 can fit into a teaspoon), wormlike young. Still little more than squirming, pink embryos, the baby possums clamber upward over their mother's soft, warm underbelly and into the pouch that opens and closes like an old-fashioned tobacco sack. There they fasten themselves to one of 13 pinhead teats and are nourished for two months while they grow to the size of young rats. Outside the pouch, they are carried about clinging to their mother's fur and hair...
John F. Kennedy '40, of the business board, is moving from the House of Representatives to the Senate, and John J. Sack '51 of the news board is moving from Japan to Korea...