Word: sackful
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...than a club and a puffy paragraph is worth its weight in gold brocade, Fairchild thrived. In 1957, weeks before it was shown to the buyers, he managed to get hold of a sketch of Givenchy's precedent-shattering shift, later to be called "the sack," and ran it on WWD's front page. In 1960, he got advance word of Yves St. Laurent's distinctive new silhouette for the House of Dior, which he maliciously described as looking like "a toothpaste tube on top of a brioche." Soon Fairchild was not only sitting in the front...
...willing to pay four bucks to see Woodstock at a Sack theatre, then you will certainly grab the opportunity to give up seven bucks for Ethel Grodzins Romm's extensive collection of spicy excerpts from the underground press...
Afro-Saxon Leaders. After three days of negotiations, the government agreed to sack an unpopular army commander, and the mutiny flickered out. Four persons were killed during the week; of the army's seven reported casualties, one had received a shot in the hand, another had sprained an ankle, and a third had suffered a case of "exhaustion and constipation...
...cruelest metaphor for greedy indifference occurs toward the end of The Tin Drum, when Oskar's father is killed in his grocery cellar by occupying Russian forces. His body falls across the path of some ants that have set up supply lines to a smashed sack of sugar. "The ants found themselves facing a new situation," Grass wrote, "but, undismayed by the detour, soon built a new highway round the doubled-up Matzerath, for the sugar that trickled out of the burst sack had lost none of its sweetness while Marshal Rokossovski was occupying the city of Danzig...
...Three hours and $72.47 spent at the Alpha Beta. 2 cases of dog food, a 75 pound sack of Keeble she had struggled out to Sam's TR herself. Inorganic vegetables, spices, a 5 pound bag of peanuts. More, much more. She knew the checkout boy-a novice at the Tribal hunting grounds, or from a novena at Alyosha's-and he had asked her, "Hey lovely one, you sure when you come down you're going to want all this stuff...