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Word: sackfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jane DeCosta of Highland Park, III.; Anna Fellner of New Haven, Conn.; Faith Howard of Westmount, Quebec; and Ellen Franzen, Deirdre Hubbard, and Sheila LaFarge, all of New York City. Also Amy Mims, of Chicago, III.; Carol S. Powers of Swampscott, Mass.; Virginia Rhinelander of Stanford, Calif.; Sallyann A. Sack of Cleveland, Ohio; and Judith Schultz of Huntington Valley, Penn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smith President to Speak At' Cliffe Commencement | 6/12/1957 | See Source »

Beside the fairy-tale finery of distinguished delegates crowding into London's 132-year-old Lancaster House, the pale Colonial Office functionaries in their sack coats and striped trousers looked dignified but inconspicuous. Their appearance reflected their role. They were lost among the multihued robes, top-heavy turbans and richly feathered headgear of ebony-featured emissaries who had been summoned to London to speed the independence of some 33 million ill-assorted black British subjects in Nigeria. The result will be the creation of the largest independent state in Africa, the fourth most populous in the Commonwealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMONWEALTH: E Pluribus Nigeria | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

Northeastern lost 16 to 5 to Tufts yesterday afternoon, and since the Jumbos fell into the victim sack for the varsity, 9 to 3, today's meeting should be little more than an opportunity for the Crimson to tighten up for the Army game on Saturday...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Crimson Nine Will Oppose Huskies at 3 | 4/23/1957 | See Source »

...moment, at a Greenwich Village brawl. Chayefsky almost dares to face the moment of truth. Hero Charlie is all set to chuck his scruples and climb in the sack with a ludicrously pathetic little bohemienne. But then he realizes what a dope he is to be prowling the streets after something that doesn't seem to exist, when all the time a cozy little wife is waiting for him back home. Suddenly he knows that he "loves" his wife. The conclusion is apparently supposed to be a daring one. At the risk of offending the entire prostitute population, Playwright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...constant characteristic running through the species revolves around the hour of arising. The Roommate habitually sets the alarm for 7:30, stumbles out of bed at that improbable hour, silences the clanging, and plunges cloudily back into the sack whence he emerged, leaving his victimized comrade to sleep angelically through his 9 o'clock lecture. Invariably, moreover, he is at the toothpaste, in the shower, on the Seat, or at the sink at the precise moment you would like to use said utility. His timing is infallible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strange Bedfellows | 2/15/1957 | See Source »

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