Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cheeked Irishman, has been a demolition craneman for 27 years. His specialty is battering buildings apart with a 2,800-lb. steel ball. The ball swings from a cable at the end of a 100-ft. boom, and Big Jim, by deftly whirling his crane cab and boom, can send the ball crashing into a target with bull's-eye accuracy. Many a major Eastern wrecking project has had an Allit touch...
Somewhat breathless after a half-page assault on U.S. civilization in general ("racism, gangsterism, alcoholism . . . prostitution disguised as law"), L'Humanité begged readers to send in suggestions for future treatment...
...Chase Taylor, but he has become so firmly attached to Stoopnagle (a name he "just happened to dream up") that he uses it nowadays for everything except signing checks. According to his friend, Fred Allen, Stoopnagle was born "in a small, prefabricated cabin, which he helped his father to send for," and was delivered, not by the stork, but "by a man from the Audubon Society, personally...
...musicians will get competition this year, the Band promised, as the management has carefully preserved the $1000 H.A.A. contribution that will send the "best in the business" to New Haven...
Last week a Latin American delegate said: "We don't get it. When Manuilsky votes with the Russians that requires no explanation back home. But when Mrs. Pandit votes with them, as she often will, that will hurt us. Why doesn't the U.S. delegation send somebody around to explain its insistence on Mrs. Pandit? It looks a little stupid...