Word: slabbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tree Burp! (Pardon me, it's this stuff) loomed up from nowhere, smashed the car, and drew life's blood. Luckily they died outright, and they did not feel the blood trickle. The thought of the speeding, the sudden, final movements, and the dying, the passing . . . A cold slab, flesh cold, blood dried, eyes wide and staring dead. Have you ever...
Righthander Ed Ingalls will toe the slab at the start today, with lefty Dick Walsh in reserve. Only change in the regular lineup will find Dave Shean replacing Dick Grondahl in left field...
Southwest Africa, a long slab of coastline between Portuguese Angola and the Union of South Africa, is particularly singled out for such tactics. A League of Nations mandate awarded it to the Union of South Africa after the War, but even today one-third of this former German colony's 30,000 white inhabitants are still German. For two years the Deutsche Bund, a Nazi organization, has marched and drilled there, boycotted Jewish and British traders, set up secret courts and a veritable state-within-a-state. Last week the Dominion of South Africa took notice, issued decrees...
Walsh, the Senior southpaw, did not show up too well in his two vacation games, but Coach Fred Mitchell figures that he is about ready to turn in a really good performance and so will have him toe the slab...
...find myself stretched upon the ground. Some one rolls me over and says I am dead, which I want to deny but can't. So I think I must be dead too. An ambulance whisks my body to the morgue, where I am laid on a cold slab. My flesh is cold, the blood dried, and my eyes wide and staring. Lying there naked, I am about to request the attendant to cover me with more than a sheet, when I awake with a strong wind blowing through the casement and on my uncovered self...