Word: shacking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...depicted the idyllic cattle and sheep ranches of a century and more ago, the land and oil booms of the 1880s and '90s, the leaning fences and signboards of the 19205. The 1941 display pictured children playing in congested streets, oil wells blossoming on front lawns. A weatherbeaten shack, transplanted whole from a Los Angeles slum, stood accusingly before a backdrop of Los Angeles' skyscraping city hall...
Second only to Harvard Square's Boston Elevated shack, the hideous ibis-nest at Mt. Auburn and Bow is entering its thirty-third year as a notorious local traffic hazard. An attempt to eject the occupants and remove the monstrosity from the middle of a public thoroughfare was foiled by camouflaging it as an automobile accident, and the Building Commission has been stalled off by leaning the shaky south wall so that it is supported by the others. It is thus quite possible that the Lampoon Building will stand for at least another year...
Last week patients kept traveling to the little town of Ibicui where the doctor was living in a shack, maintaining his calm bedside manner among his several wives and dozens of children, including two albinos. The doctor's latest protector was the local police commissioner. He had provided Tupá Mbaé with a dispensary which was also the police commissioner's home, police station and customs post...
...loyalty to his old gang was a rock on which his marriage nearly foundered. To please one pal, he sank $30,000 in the Brown Bomber softball team; to please another, he sank $42,000 in the Brown Bomber Chicken Shack, a Detroit eatery. He has been known to pay a check for $1,000 after his "secretary" (another pal) entertained some frisky friends in a Har lem cabaret...
When spring came, Mrs. Groenewegen wrote to the Post Office Department in Washington. On her own land, just 233 yards away from the post office, was a good, warm shack only 40 years old. Could she move the post office into that, before she froze to death? Back came a letter from Ambrose O'Connell, First Assistant Postmaster General: "You are here by authorized to change the site. . . ." Mrs. Groenewegen made ready to move...