Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Friedrichshafen in South Germany. She broke every record of distance and speed for airships of any type, from any country. For the first time, mail and freight from Berlin reached Manhattan in less than five days: messages of goodwill, a tabloid edition of the VÖssische Zeitung, a sack of 1,000 toys for Wanamaker's famed department store, a walking doll for Major Frank M. Kennedy's little daughter...
...Time and again Gore carried the ball the length of the field, only to be stopped on the five yard line by the Standish team. The second quarter was much the same, but the black-shirted men from Standish were weakening fast, and towards the end of the period Sack scored on a forward pass. Heard kicked the goal, and then the half ended...
...Soon after this Heard intercepted a pass and ran for his second touchdown, again kicking the goal. After this Standish held Gore in the middle of the field, largely by the work of Captain Lee, the left guard, just before the close of the game, however, Sack scored again on a pass from Heard. This ended the scoring for the game, Gore having rolled up a total of 27 points to 0 for Standish...
...Krassikov, President of the Supreme Court; Kursky, Commissioner of Justice; Minjiniki Elyava, Head of the Trans-Caucasian Federation; Karl Redek, famed diplomat; another arch-devil, Bela Kun, quondam Red Dictator of Hungary. In the dock a small man, quite bald, about 45, dressed in a cheap double-breasted grey sack suit and a thin black tie. His face was reminiscent of a youthful Napoleon, but "cadaverous and drawn with deep shadows under the eyes." He was unafraid and viewed the spectators lazily. He was the arch-desperado, Gen. Boris Savinkov...
...England, flour has been marked up in price four times in a single week. A sack of flour now costs $3.25 more than before the rise in wheat started. Roughly every 75? advance on the flour sack means a penny more for a loaf of bread. Already the four-pound loaf has jumped from 16? to 19?. First and last, it is estimated that the present increase in British bread will call for the payment by England of about $90,000,000 to foreign wheat-exporting countries...