Word: sackful
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...Huey ocC turned off Kate Smith and turned to the scratch sheets. "Cady-did, Cady-did," said the bugs along the Charles, and the Sage of the Age fell to dreaming about the Good Old Days. "Ah," he murmured, "there used to be a keg of beer on every Sack, and everyone was always Headleying over for a re-fill. Nobody toed the Marks--they really Raiszed the roof. And with a Goodman often hard to find, the Poon still would beg, "Trager a good pitcher for another stein." They could really Hendel the ball. Those Crimeds were ball-players...
...long dim room full of murmurs and movements of figures in all kinds of clothes, from the striped uniform of Buchenwald to just a sack draped over bony shoulders. The walls were lined with bunks built right up to the ceiling. The 1,500 slept four, six or eight or any number to a bunk. When it was really crowded, men slept on top of each other and the ones on the bottom, like as not, were dead of suffocation in the morning...
Polish troops were almost within sight of Emden. At the bottom of the sack, west of Bremen, the British Second Army ran into what Allied airmen had once called "Flak Alley." Now the massive concentration of antiaircraft guns was leveled to sweep the roads. Few gun crews gave up until all their shells were fired...
...High Court of Justice and Public Prosecutor Mario Berlinguer, finally forced official notice of the uproar. After a meeting of the Cabinet, Umberto, acting in his capacity as Commander in Chief of the Royal Navy, had the pleasure of proclaiming that his polo-playing cousin had got the sack...
Banker Vieck regretted that he could not show the cache of gold; somebody had lost the key to the chamber. The Americans obligingly blew out the wall. And there was the gold, each 25-lb. bar wrapped in a sack, each sack tagged: "Reichsbank." There were sacks of gold coin, some of them too heavy for a man to lift. There seemed to be even more gold stacked in the dim-lit, salt-crusted chamber than Vieck had said...