Word: slabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shoots at your feet, you shoot at his stomach; show him you're tougher than he is," advised one kid-criminal. Said another, describing a police interrogation: "He picked up a slab of leather with a heel on it and he started hitting me with it, and he socked me down a flight of stairs...
Little, red-haired Emily retired in 1934. On Denver's standard $50-a-month teacher's pension-all that Emily would accept -she settled down in a pine-slab mountain cabin at Pinecliffe, 35 miles northwest of town, with her invalid sister, Florence...
...Five-year-old Marion Delgado, thinking over a problem he had set himself-how to break a 25-lb. concrete water-meter cover-showed a disastrous bent for physics. He wrestled the slab to the Western Pacific Railroad tracks near San Francisco, confident that the train would do it easily. The Feather River Express rattled down the main line and hit the concrete block, the locomotive and tender jumped the rails, the baggage car rolled over with a crash, and five people were hurt...
...crude, pine-slab cabin without bath or toilet, a little old lady sat silently peeling grapefruit one day last week. Presently a car pulled up the mountain road and honked. The old lady put down the paring knife, daintily touched a smidgen of rouge to her cheeks, clutched a wide-brimmed red straw sailor and climbed...
...April 22]: when John B. Stanchfield, a brilliant New York lawyer, was a college student away back in the '70s, he stood close to the wall of a college building exactly the same distance from the corner of the building as the distance from the pitcher's slab to home plate. With a doubting professor of physics right behind him, Stanchfield took his wind-up and pitched. As the ball reached the end of the building it disappeared around the corner...