Word: shear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ormbreck and a teller with sash cord and gagging them with dirty rags. Richter returned to the farm, paid up $400 worth of bills, tucked away the remaining loot between the walls of a grain bin. Two days later he went to a neighbor's farm to help shear sheep, returned to find police waiting. Said he sadly: "Bank robbing just isn't my line...
Coach Harry Sacks has an evenly-balanced squad and chooses his starters from a group of six men: Ed Sussenguth, Pete Briggs, Al Botter, Dave Sommer, Harley Shear, and Don Davidoff...
...over. Said Jet Ace (11 MIGs) Major James Jabara: "It's like flying an arm chair." The MIG cannot pull out of a left spin, but U.S. pilots never have to worry about the Sabre. The Sabre is also stronger than the MIG; pilots have seen the wings shear off a MIG or the tail disintegrate, but an F-86 has never come apart...
Some of the opposition are for prompt amendment of the constitution, to shear the King's power; some are for nationalization of the oilfields, some for land reform, some merely against alliances with the West. Behind them, but in the forefront of the rioting, were Communist partisans, happy to direct the troublemaking against Britain...
LeTourneau is shipping some of his most impressive mechanical equipment to Africa, including a 22-ton machine that can shear off big trees like a scythe cutting grass and a self-contained sawmill unit which will be hauled by the biggest bulldozer in the world. LeTourneau insists that he is not primarily interested in profit in his Liberian adventure. Nor does he want to create mere "rice Christians." Says he: "I am trying to do a missionary job in a businesslike...