Word: toot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group known as the sporting fraternity. It is home to dozens of men who know sports, write sports and talk sports. It is a place which has the atmosphere of a club. As one of its habituees has put it, "I'd rather be standing outside of Toot's starving, than sitting inside Ciro's belching...
...charitable as we can, perhaps he is not to blame for the failure of his own party to carry out its pledges to labor . . . Let us give him the benefit of the doubt." This time nobody leaped to bannerlines, but Dan Tobin's second and loudest toot seemed to put him definitely, if unenthusiastically, aboard the Truman train...
...toot of a motor horn, the prospectors stormed Nooitgedacht, began pegging out their 45-foot-square claims. The Negro laborers shoveled furiously through three or four feet of clay to a layer of gravel which the prospectors scooped up, rocked in hand sieves and dumped on sorting tables. The diggers (who will pay De Beers 10% of their finds) were a mixed lot. Among them were a monocled Scot known as "Donal the Duke"; bearded, Bible-carrying "Uncle Pete the Sky Pilot," and big, burly, sombrero-wearing Jacob Venter, 51, who has spent half his life looking for diamonds...
...enemies: vultures and condors. The islands' cliffs have been topped with walls to make the birds take off at a sharp rate of climb instead of trailing their feet and knocking precious guano into the water. Passing ships are prohibited from blowing their whistles, for even a brief toot will scare the birds into the air, where they mill in black clouds wasting their guano...
...Railroader Johnston didn't care. The Illinois Central was celebrating its 100th anniversary. All along its 6,543 miles of track between Chicago and New Orleans, the same tumult of bells and whistles broke loose on the "Main Line of Mid-America." The Illinois Central had plenty to toot about. It dominated the length & breadth of the Mississippi Valley-which Alexis de Tocqueville had called "the most magnificent dwelling place prepared by God for man's abode." The Central had opened up the dwelling place...