Word: sackfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Night of the Hunter. In Cincinnati, after he missed a potshot at a cop, was caught carrying a loaded pistol, flashlight, gloves and burlap sack, John C. Davis drew a one-to-20-year sentence despite his explanation that he was outfitted merely for "hunting crickets...
...Question. Amid the continuing echoes of the crisis, the 40,000 men of the Sixth Fleet were back last week on their arduous routine patrolling-up to twelve hours a day on watch broken by chow lines, snatched sack time, ships' movies, and mail brought in almost daily by helicopter and high-line-with a high level of discipline and a low level of petty offenses that reflected superb morale. "This," said one ensign, comparing the salad days of Mediterranean duty to the present paucity of ports, "is no all-expense tour...
...Lord's on My Side (Jimmy Wakely; Decca). Against some strong competition, this number may rank as the year's most repulsive record. The hero, admitted sad sack, liar and cheat, comes out all right because, by golly, the Lord is on his side. He is prompted in his wobbly confessional by a sanctimonious, echoing female, and goaded by a whining girls' trio in a sickly waltz...
...iron will pretending to be religious ecstasy." The story is so readable because of the suspense with which we wait for fate to turn Hayyem's small successes into monstrous failures. His greatest early triumph, losing his virginity ("Without any kind of preliminaries, on top of a flour sack we got completely mixed up together"), produces two months later, a baby, for which he is convinced to pay "two month's salary for silence and one months salary for expenses...
...Money. In West Babylon, N.Y., after thieves broke into a house and stole between $5,000 and $12,000 cached in a feed sack, police found roughly $17,000 more lying around, got an explanation from ex-Cab Driver John Van Huda: "You know how it is, you need money around the house for emergencies...