Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Body in a Sack. Only half a block away from swank Delamere Avenue, police caught one Mau Mau gang initiating new members (by forcing them to drink blood, and eat a sheep's entrails). Last week Banasio Kahangara, son of the Paramount Chief of Lari who was murdered this spring (TIME, April 6), was found in a sack on Main Street, strangled...
Bread & Butter. To perk up sagging sales of butfer, the American Dairy Association made a deal with International Milling Co. of Minneapolis to include 25? toward the purchase of a pound of butter in every 5-lb., 10-lb., or 25-lb. sack of International's Robin Hood flour (a 50? coupon is in every...
...born on the American frontier of Norwegian parents. Among other peculiarities, he locked his watch to his vest with a large safety pin and he'd up his socks with two pins moored to his pants. His idea of a joke was to return a borrowed sack to a farmer with a hornet's nest inside. Acidly sardonic, he called religion "the fabrication of vendible imponderables in the nth dimension," religious organizations "chain stores," and individual churches "retail outlets." Women apparently could not resist him. nor he, them. "What are you to do if the woman moves...
Everything pointed to success. Kafka's nightmarish book, first published in 1925, is enjoying a vogue among intellectuals; it tells about a kind of tragic Sad Sack-an ordinary man named Joseph K. who is arrested, tried by a mysterious court for an unspecified crime, chivied by a cold, incomprehensible bureaucracy until he is finally led away by two black-clad agents and stabbed to death. This macabre theme of man tortured by forces he does not understand was successfully used by Alban Berg in Wozzeck and by Gian-Carlo Menotti in his more popular Consul. Salzburg first-nighters...
...Class football team, which for three years had won the University championship, and had beaten Yale the previous year, lost to the Elis, 12 to 7. The lineup included Hemminger, Mulford, Kiser, Robbins, Hartwell, Blowers, Turney, Taff, North, Long, and Sack...