Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quartermaine is concerned, these are like whispers in the anteroom of his mind. The thunderclap comes when he gets the sack after two decades at the school. "O Lord," he says like a last gasp of wind escaping from a toy balloon. He cannot comprehend it, and such is Ramsay's control of the nuances of his part that the playgoer is as stricken...
...what society seeks, a gentle execution would seem counterproductive. Better to use the garrote or the guillotine, surely, whereby the full pound of flesh may be reclaimed. Better still to do as the Romans in cases of parricide. The criminal, judged guilty, would be bound and sealed in a sack with a dog and a chicken, then dumped into the water. Eventually he would suffocate or drown, if he was not first scratched to death by the panicked animals...
...Crimson announced plans for a Harvard track carnival. "The purpose of the carnival is to give all members of the University a chance to compete," the article said. The meet included interdormitory relay races and a shot-put event, as well as a potato race, a sack race, a pole-climbing competition and other less-than-standard track and field events. The Class of 1909 won the tug of war. The winter carnival became a popular annual event and was continued for many years...
...been regarded as both true and alarming. With noble earnestness, Walter Cronkite used to plead that his half-hour script would not fill three-quarters of a single newspaper page and that distortion was "the inevitable result of trying to get ten pounds of news into the one-pound sack we are given each night." Speaking at a du Pont Awards ceremony at Columbia University in February, NBC's Tom Brokaw said that unfortunately many Americans "have come to rely on us as their primary and only source of information" and "we are inadequate to that task." It just...
...added that Hackey-Sack is popular along parts of the West Coast, where he learned to play three years ago. Together with roommate Geordie D. Wilson, Lerdau has actively spread the faith here since September...