Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corpse. There was not enough to burn, so the body was dragged back to the court house, soused with gasoline and lighted. "Here's what we do on the Eastern Shore!" the crowd chanted. Several hours later, troopers put what was left of George Armwood on a truck...
...West Burlington tower is 90 ft. high, 22.2 ft. across. A small motor turned it into a 10-m. p. h. wind during last week's demonstration. The force developed was four ton. It bent 2 in. by 6 in. steel bars. If the tower were on a truck, where it will ultimately be mounted, the four-ton force would turn the truck wheels. The turning wheels would operate an electrical generator...
Edsel Ford, always admirable in his restraint, has told General Johnson that he "will have no truck with collective bargaining", and father Henry insists that he has "nothing to say about the National Recovery Act". No one has proved that the Fords are violating the hour and wage scales prescribed by Washington, but they refuse to throw open their books to the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, and this, since they are not members, is reasonable enough. General Johnson, however, is eager for a test of his much touted enforcement machinery, and there is little doubt that he will visit...
Clearly the League is set up on the democratic hypothesis, and the rejection of that hypothesis by two of Europe's greatest nations must call its utility as an instrument into serious question. The dictator can have small truck with parliamentary diplomacy Mussolini has been cold to the League and the Nazis have been adamant France and Great Britain must not relinquish their stand against secret diplomacy, which is the most heady of all stimulants to war. But European economics make war at the present time a virtual impossibility and between the prestige of Geneva and the need for Hitler...
...their senses, O'Doul was in with another run. Crowder managed to fan Ryan. Pitcher Schumacher singled to left and Jackson slid home. By that time the entire Giant team had batted during the inning. Moore led off again, smacked the first ball into centre field, letting Mancuso truck home with the sixth run. Manager Cronin was then convinced that a change of pitchers might help. He sent in Al Thomas who, although the bases were promptly filled again, allowed no hits for the rest of the game. New York 6, Washington...