Word: toting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little Manabu tended rice and vegetables between the rows of coffee trees, gradually grew husky enough to tote the 88-lb. coffee sacks. He taught himself to read Portuguese at night by kerosene lamplight, hoarded scraps of paper to make sketches on. But the heavy farm work, plus malaria and amoebic dysentery, bore down relentlessly on the family. The father proved too thin and weak for field work, devoted his waning life to drinking pinga (sugarcane spirits), finally died of cancer. Mabe, the eldest of the seven children, borrowed enough money to become a small-time farmer, struggled to keep...
...break" to let Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, Vatican diplomat, make a hasty departure from the Vulcania without suffering the embarrassment of crossing their line. A troupe of Yemenite dancers walked ashore with their luggage on their heads, and pursers and stewards from the U.S.S. Constitution helped 983 home-coming travelers tote their baggage ashore. Perishable goods were in danger of rotting on the piers and in ships' holds, and U.S. grain exports for the Far East, South America and Europe piled up at dockside at the rate of 11 million bushels weekly...
...from millionaire cronies such as Baltimore Colts' Owner Carroll Rosenbloom. ("Who wouldn't pay $1,000,000 to get control of $10 million?" asks Chesler.) With Universal's cash, Chesler bought Baltimore's American Totalisator, which owns and leases 80% of the racetrack "Tote" systems that automatically figure and post bets, odds and winnings. By swapping stock, Universal later acquired General Register Corp. (ticket machines for movies and racetracks) and C. P. Clare & Co. (electronic relays). The company, then renamed Universal Controls, paid cash for Canada...
There are an estimated 100 fast-draw clubs in the U.S. today. Denver alone has 13. Members dress up in fancy Western outfits, tote six-shooters that cost from $50 to $125 and are modeled on the classic six-shooter of the Old West...
...entire mile and a half, at the finish of the $100,000 Washington, D.C. International was apparently an easy 3 ½length winner over the Australian entry Sailor's Guide. The University of Maryland band proudly played the national anthem. But the "objection" sign flashed on the tote board, and 21 agonizing minutes later Tudor Era was disqualified and Sailor's Guide named the winner. Explained Sailor's Guide Jockey Howard Grant: "Tudor Era kept riding me into the rail and I had to pull up. I said 'What is it with this cat?'" Ireland...