Word: slewed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everything's made for love." So why not toss a testimonial dinner for Sam, just to show how everybody loves him? Frank hired the main barroom and big banquet hall of the capital's Washington Hotel, sent out invitations to every big shot in town and a slew of industrialists, statesmen, bankers and railroad executives. (Winston Churchill cabled his regrets.) Once before, when Sam Rayburn lost the speakership to Republican Joe Martin, Boykin had wanted to do something for him, and he raised money to buy as handsome a Cadillac as the official car he had to give...
From Bangkok to Hanoi, Surgeon May makes his rounds, trotting through an atmosphere of opium and betel nut, respectfully probing the innards of royal concubines, palpating a slew of Somerset Maughamish transplanted Europeans without whom the mysterious East would probably be far less mysterious. Stretched in their hammocks, patting on the suntan oil, most U.S. readers will gladly tag along with...
...bartender and tavern keeper is a hard one. Local foam pumpers, already harried by a slew of new restrictions, explain that there just isn't any percentage in a five cent brew as far as they are concerned...
...dove has to pure white," McKee explained, "and it's better if it is a stormy night," Drawing their information from a collection of books cached away in Widener Library, they felt they could settle a whole slew of metaphysical questions with one crucial test...
...insect fighter. Back in 1908, Hyslop en listed in the bug-fighting army of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He poisoned grasshoppers, battled boll weevils, spied out numberless insects with a view to their undoing. Finally, as boss of the Insect Pest Survey and Information, he and his minions slew bugs by the billions. But as he got to know the enemy, a change came over Hyslop : he began to see things from the insect's point of view...