Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clawing and kicking. Without changing expression, he shifted his stick to his left hand, and with his right forearm dealt her a terrific swipe which sent her skidding across the road to the curb, against which she gashed her head. The cop looked up and said, "La garce!" (that tramp...
...Luckenbach line decided on drastic action. It announced that intercoastal service would be suspended, Luckenbach's coastal fleet would join its tramp steamers in the international trade. Said the line's acting Pacific Coast manager, Vincent P. McMurdo : "Until we can operate ships on this coast without interference in management by the longshore union, we're pulling...
...also owns the aging heavyweight champion, Gus Lennert. Gus is soon to retire, after drawing one big purse for getting massacred by the challenger, Buddy Stein, and another for doing a nose dive before El Toro. Nick has all the elements nicely calculated except his wife, Ruby, a ladylike tramp who seduces El Toro. Eddie finally gets fed up with the whole business; he realizes at last that he can't have Beth, that he has been a criminal among criminals. The novel has a wildly contrived and sentimental ending...
...they worked, Farmer Morrison, short, fat and overalled, wore a worried look. The harvest of his months-long labor was in the hands of an outsider: Thomas L. Dupree, a big (6 ft. 2 in.), husky (228 lbs.) tramp harvester who had come in from Kansas with his caravan of combines, trucks and harvest hands. But Morrison's worries were nearly over. Swiftly, Dupree and his crew cut the grain, loaded it into their trucks, and hauled it to the elevator a few miles away. When a crack in the truck body let out a thin trickle of wheat...
...Tramp's Job. Last week Dupree and 2,400 other self-contained tramp caravans like his were busy getting in the Oklahoma harvest, part of the greatest wheat crop in U.S. history. The Department of Agriculture raised its estimates of its size once more, this time to 1,409,000,000 bushels. The job would not have been done without the cutters who have taken the place of the old migrant harvest hands. The business was born during the war, when wheat farmers expanded their acreage far beyond what they could harvest with their own machinery (TIME, July...