Word: sackfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leonard continued to stall and the talk got uglier. Blinky visited Leonard in Los Angeles, accompanied by a couple of tough-looking hoodlums with police records who lingered ominously in the background. Leonard got threatening phone calls ("It'll be with a pipe wrapped in a paper sack. You'll never know what hit you"). He testified that Carbo called too. said "something to the effect that 'You're going to get hurt. We're going to make an example of you.' " After the hearing, police were assigned to guard Leonard whenever he left...
...rabbi like his father, two uncles, father-in-law, two older brothers and (when they finish their studies) two younger twin brothers. And to keep the Torah as an Orthodox Jew for six years of studies in Milwaukee's Roman Catholic Marquette University was something like running a sack race, an egg race and an army obstacle course at the same time...
...year ago, no pitcher would have bothered to dust off Harmon Clayton Killebrew, 22. But last week young Killebrew was 'the chief reason the sad-sack Senators were as high as fourth place in the American League. At week's end "Killer'' Killebrew led the league in home runs (14). runs scored (29), runs batted...
...commuters carry sack lunches. For that matter, not all live at home for financial reasons. But the need to save money is the number one reason for non-residency, and Leighton explains in definite figures the difference in price...
Though roughly half of all commuters never set foot in Dudley, the others eat lunch there, on the average of three or four times a week. About a quarter of these bring sack lunches; the others buy from a cafeteria selection that includes excellent ham-and cheeseburgers. Half did not list any extracurricular activity except "work," but the rest claim to spend around seven hours a week on a wide variety of clubs and sports...