Word: sackful
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...than once a year.. When Native Lands Commissioner Henry Evans Maude hopped ashore on Pitcairn two years ago, he knew that his would probably be the last official visit for the war's duration. He found that government records had all been chucked into an old sugar sack. The spawning goat population was slowly munching up the island's greenery. Public boats (needed to bring goods ashore, since Pitcairn has no harbor) looked as neglected as unused outhouses. To teach Pitcairn Islanders how to shift for themselves, Commissioner Maude decided on a time-honored British expedient...
...Land Army girl who went to work at Castle Ashby, the many-acred estate of the sixth Marquess of Northampton. The girl's name was Virginia Lucie Heaton. She was 22, and she tucked spring flowers in her dark hair when she went into the fields. Even her sack-bottomed corduroy trousers, her straw-snagged sweater and her crushed hunting cap could not hide the fact that she was slim and pretty...
...tinkling ornaments about their feet . . . and their round tires like the moon. . . . And it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle, a rent; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a stomacher, a girding of sack cloth; and burning instead of beauty...
...great international figure and therefore must not be criticized, far less removed; I am unable to agree. International figures are made, not born. If you will make me Minister of Information with no more than the present powers over the press and radio, I will guarantee to make a sack of potatoes into an international figure inside of a fortnight...
...torpedo had blasted Wajda's ship, a U.S. merchantman, at night; shellfire pummeled her carcass. Shell fragments got Wajda in the head and ankle, rolled him overboard like a sack. He came to on a pitching raft where ship's Engineers Mahlon Benton and Lindgren Bancroft had dragged him. They rigged a sail of two big yellow quarantine flags, dressed Wajda's wounds, doled him out a supply of chocolate and hardtack...