Word: sackfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something Alive. In the kiva of the Koshare troop, a capacity crowd of 400 watched while the dances began with the ceremonial lighting of a fire. Soon the Mudheads bounded in. The Mudheads are idiot children born of a god's incestuous union with his sister; their sack-like masks with doughnut-shaped eyes and mouth are hideous and their movements are wild and grotesque. The touch of a Mudhead can drive a good man sex-mad, say the Zuñis, and they shrink before their threatening leaps and insane gyrations. Later in the evening the Shalakos...
Starting the second period, the Crimson fell behind by its widest margin of the night, 14 points. Krinsky's two set shots and Sack's six foul conversions enabled the team to pull up at half-time, however, 33 to 21. The Crimson's two high point men for the night, Sacks and Dennis with 16 apiece, scored only one field goal between them in the half, and the team had only four altogether...
...answer him. Harlow reached for the vial of cyanide, knelt carefully, and poured more poison into his father's mouth. The partners in crime stayed on for more than an hour to make sure the parents were dead. Then they put the third champagne glass into a paper sack, broke it, and departed, dropping the fragments into a sewer on their way. Two days later, Harlow came back to the apartment, found the bodies, called the police and wept hysterically at his parents' "suicides...
...happy notation that F.D.R. seemed about ready to "move" against the anti-New Deal oldsters on the Supreme Court-a fight in which "I hope to be able to take part." With an air of conscious righteousness, he records a piece of White House scuttlebutt: F.D.R. is about to sack more than half his Cabinet,* but will reappoint Honest Harold...
...Alonzo Byron) Ewing, 59, onetime treasurer of Sunshine Biscuits Inc. and acting treasurer of Kansas City's Flour Mills of America, seventh largest U.S. flour miller, moved up to the presidency of Flour Mills. Ewing was brought in last August to help Flour Mills out of a sack of troubles which resulted in a $3,000,000 loss last year and the resignations of President Henry H. Gate and Treasurer O. J. Spaulding. The company has filed a damage suit against Gate and Spaulding. The charge: using company money for speculative grain dealings on behalf of the corporation...