Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pigeons are shy of any moving object. If the rubber garter snakes had wriggled, the pigeons would not have come near them. An inflated paper sack tied where the breeze can move it will keep the pigeons away...
...watching an eye-rolling, lip-twitching Robert Newton as he wallows outrageously through the role of Long John Silver, one of fiction's most ingratiating scoundrels. Disney apparently liked him well enough to let him steal the whole treasure (as well as the picture), instead of the single sack of coins that Stevenson let him get away with...
When Richard Dyer-Bennet sang at Cabot Hall last week, he wore a tuxedo. He had no raucous accent, no sack of coonskin tales, and his shoes and his guitar were clean. While Dyer-Bennet was less colorful than the night-club hand, he was more effective because he was a musician with folk-song only as part of his repertoire...
...Gunny J. Sack...
Rain cancelled the Yardlings' last contest, against Andover Saturday. With six games remaining, Samborski's squad has a record of six victories and one loss. Exeter's strong nine will provide the opposition Saturday at Soldiers Field. HARVARD M.I.T. Canepa, 2b Winkfield (c), cf Smith (c), cf Sack, 1b Collins, rf Ucella (c), ss Arnow, lf Lenard, c Chase, 3b Ainger, lf Greeley, ss Zwerling, rf O'Brien, 1b Beal, 2b Wade or Hubbard, c Kirkpatrick, 3b Ward, p Teeple...