Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening the new chum's uniform hung on him like a sack. He was run over by the crew of the foretop in a rush for hammocks and, when he staggered to the fo'c'sle with his own bursting hammock, was coldly asked by an officer if he was "carrying guts to a bear." After making up the hammock with non-regulation sheets as large as small sails, he fell out of it twice...
...eight for breakfast; thence to Bio D, from there to Ec A, and finally to Dr. Finer's Gov 1 lecture; lunch in the House; sculling on the Charles most of the afternoon; dinner in the House; studied until 11--marginal cost is quite incomprehensible--than hit the sack...
...Huey ocC turned off Kate Smith and turned to the scratch sheets. "Cady-did, Cady-did," said the bugs along the Charles, and the Sage of the Age fell to dreaming about the Good Old Days. "Ah," he murmured, "there used to be a keg of beer on every Sack, and everyone was always Headleying over for a re-fill. Nobody toed the Marks--they really Raiszed the roof. And with a Goodman often hard to find, the Poon still would beg, "Trager a good pitcher for another stein." They could really Hendel the ball. Those Crimeds were ball-players...
...long dim room full of murmurs and movements of figures in all kinds of clothes, from the striped uniform of Buchenwald to just a sack draped over bony shoulders. The walls were lined with bunks built right up to the ceiling. The 1,500 slept four, six or eight or any number to a bunk. When it was really crowded, men slept on top of each other and the ones on the bottom, like as not, were dead of suffocation in the morning...
...High Court of Justice and Public Prosecutor Mario Berlinguer, finally forced official notice of the uproar. After a meeting of the Cabinet, Umberto, acting in his capacity as Commander in Chief of the Royal Navy, had the pleasure of proclaiming that his polo-playing cousin had got the sack...