Word: sackfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Girl of 20. When the sack of San Pedro moved into the next operation, looting, it became plain that Tulio had an extraordinary co-commander: a dark, slim girl of about 20. The bandits called her Doña Edelmira; she wore men's clothes, carried two revolvers and a knife, seemed to be Tulio's girl. Edelmira directed the pillage. The bandits stacked the loot in the plaza, loaded it on stolen mules. Bandolero, Edelmira enforced a stern rule upon the men; she permitted no raping or kidnaping of the village women...
...author-farmer Louis Bromfield called Kentucky bluegrass a "noxious weed," Kentucky's Governor Lawrence W. Wetherby and a group of fellow bluegrass fans hopped a plane and headed for Bromfield's Malabar Farm near Mansfield to convert the heretic. First step: the gift of a sack of bluegrass seed. Further inducements: a case of Kentucky bourbon and a home-smoked...
...strutted plane looked like a cross between a box kite and an orange crate. They had named him Bed Check in the first place because at Pyongyang last fall, they used to stay awake nights until he came buzzing over from behind the enemy lines, dropped a bomb, a sack of bolts or nails, or maybe fired a few shots from a pistol and then headed for home...
...years, all the Philippines are expected to get enriched rice. And other rice-eating nations are arranging to start programs of their own. The cost: 35? per mouth per year, most of which the people themselves pay in an extra dime added to the price of a 100-lb. sack of rice...
George Robertson '53 was lured from Boston University because he wanted the prestige "given only by a Harvard diploma." Edward Sack '51 abandoned Stanford for the University because here no one is "forced into a mold...