Word: spilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friend: "Say, that was a nasty spill. Are you all right...
...secondary ploy is the faulty-mechanism technique. Here the Skiman crawls to the side of the trail after a spill, feverishly snapping one binding and muttering Swedish cusswords. The bad binding can excuse several spills if worked right...
...Earn. Some of Rimrock Annie's settlements seemed hard earned. Over the years, she claims she has had more than 40 spinal punctures because of her faked skull fractures. Once, in the rest room of the Pacific Greyhound Bus Line in Reno, she apparently took a too realistic spill on her head. She regained consciousness in a hospital. A neurologist, called in on the case, looked her over and ordered a brain operation. Some bone was removed, and she lay close to death for days. For this ordeal she collected her biggest claim...
...conditions, and on Saturday only a battle-hardened North Korean could have stood the bitter cold for very long. The whole business of ski jumping is rather repetitious, give or take a few feet in distance, and those morbid thrill-seekers who waited in hopes of seeing a spectacular spill were disappointed, fortunately...
...more important ones are passed on to the overall "screening committee," made up of three union representatives, and three men from top management, usually the president. The screening committee's specific assignment is to handle the more important suggestions, and talk over problems of production; actually its discussions spill over into questions of sales, competition, the state of the industry, in fact all aspects of the company. (Only business that is specifically the union's, such as grievances and wage demands, is excepted). As a result of screening committee give and take, the employees have a much clearer idea...