Word: sucks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High & Dry. Last week New York, and many of the 80 surrounding towns which suck like clustering leeches on its water lines, were getting perilously close to that unimaginable point at which water would no longer run from millions of kitchen faucets. Its dams stood high and dry above great barren expanses of frozen mud; only 33.4% of the city's 253 billion gallons of stored water was left and the supply was being relentlessly lowered at a rate of some 800 million gallons every...
Guarding, the initial suck all be E. J. Sack. On the Keystone sack will be J. J. Sack. On the third sack, replacing P. Sack, will be Tightfisted C. $coundrel. At shortstop, the Crime will offer Wilful S. ("Special When Lit") Fouifellow...
...them into bed at night. The opposition were brutes who combed their hair with wildcat claws. He fancied himself as the depressed coach without material who concentrated on character-building-and wasn't very good at that either. "I've got a three-year-old son who sucks his thumb," Jimmy once said. "I've been trying to mold him out of that habit, but the only result is that I'm beginning to suck my own thumb...
...Bambino's rollicking history pour through the room of his tree-shrouded Rye home as he abstractedly nodded: 'Babe Ruth was just a human citizen-a human American citizen.'" Westbrook Pegler, putting his worst (kickless) foot forward, told how Ruth, "a burly oaf [who] could suck half a pound of tobacco and spit through his ears," had autographed a baseball for him, a gift that helped him win his bride 26 years...
...author utilizes flashbacks in a most depressing and trite manner, to show a man's supposed thoughts while he is dying of a war wound. Perhaps the last few words will give a clue to the category to which this short story belongs: "But the whirlpool began to suck him down again. It was so comfortable. So easy. Sinking back, fading...fading...