Word: tilling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After a four-year hitch in the Navy, he found a job at a gas station in Los Angeles in 1938. When he was alone in the station one night, a stickup man shoved a gun in his back, then took $12 from the till. The police answered Reddin's call in what seemed no more than seconds, capturing the holdup man. Impressed, Reddin began asking questions, discovering that a rookie cop commanded $170 a month-$40 more than he was making. That was all he needed to know. In 1941 he became a cop (today he makes...
...such honest mutual recognition that the kind of political and social activity that the diggers would like to see begins. Because it is not till everyone is converted to the creed and everyone gripped by the same spirit of selflessness that institutions like the free stores and free living can flourish. Without trust nothing survives--without the trust of all nothing endures...
...epic tale of the tortoise and the hare the hare slept when obscenely confident of the race only to be over-taken in the stretch by the tortoise who did not give up the tussle till the last line had been crossed. Betty Canter (right) and Eva Stuart have taken off from their summer school studies to help the Republican tortoise in the race for the nomination for the presidency...
Jeff Beck didn't come in till nearly showtime, and was in no mood to talk...
...GROUP IS PULSING now, late in the last set. Jeff Beck draws out a burr till it nearly grates and follows it with a melodious burst. Doing 'Beck's Boogey' he comes swiftly down the frets pausing only to pluck a little at each stop, then he goes into the theme which sounds a little like 'Yankee Doodle' stops midway through with finger raised, and resumes the plucking with the drums still beating. Near the end of the number he finally completes the theme--it still sounds like 'Yankee Doodle' but it's brilliant, an improvisation worthy of the best...