Word: strapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...internal policy of his Government is the revival of Irish language and Irish culture. He speaks and writes Irish accurately and fluently, but he is willing to urge frustrated Irish students to rebel against "print-suckled hacks who have learned Irish in their youth at the point of a strap, and who have made such a mess of their lives that they can exist only by correcting examination papers." This line is always good for letters...
Lawson sat in his pilot seat on the sand, under 15 ft. of water. His nerveless hands reached down, unbuckled the seat strap and his pneumatic life belt brought him to the surface. Too paralyzed to swim, he was lifted and dropped by the waves. Dimly he saw the two tail rudders "sticking up out of the water like twin tombstones." At last a wave carried him in far enough so that he could crawl up on the beach...
...World War I. Their streetcars, owned by four different companies (all in receivership) and operated by a fifth, are oldfashioned, high-riding trolleys ("antediluvian arks"), 75% of which were built before Harding campaigned on his front porch. And they are so crowded that many Chicagoans cannot even reach a strap to hang...
...fair Wyoming morning last week, Hollywood's Wallace Beery rose up early at his ranch in the rugged Jackson Hole country, donned an old shirt, blue denim pants and cowboy boots. He put on his big black Stetson with the chin strap, grabbed his trusty six-shooter and climbed aboard his trusty white mare. In the fresh morning air he rode through the fertile valley to join a posse of ranchers...
What made Rancher Beery, and all his neighbors, strap on their six-guns was a sudden executive order by Franklin Roosevelt, turning the entire Jackson Hole valley (221,000 acres) into a national monument, in the care of a man whom Western cattlemen loathe extraordinarily: Interior Secretary Harold Ickes...