Word: wadding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...county, he searched for a lawyer to fight his case and was directed to Kirbo, who had by then moved from Bainbridge to a top law firm in Atlanta. Kirbo had the suspicious ballot box impounded and opened. There, sitting on top of the otherwise orderly pile, was a wad of 111 ballots that had been clumsily stuffed into the box. "I could have fainted," recalls Kirbo, who never expected to prove the case. Carter then won the general election by 1,500 votes...
...when he led the Chicago White Sox to their first league championship in 40 years; of skin cancer; in Baltimore. With the White Sox from 1950, "Nellie" Fox made his reputation as a player who liked to hit with an old-fashioned milk-bottle-shaped bat, chew a giant wad of tobacco, and hang a red bandana from the hip pocket of his uniform. Nicknamed "Mighty Mite," the diminutive Fox led the American League in most seasons (twelve) with 600 or more at-bats, and played in 13 All-Star games...
...nuns in Africa, Fearful of blackmen yelling 'Ya!', Tearing off starches, heavy drape, Can take an oral contraceptive, An hour or two before the rape, How will they know dread time or place. That leaves the soul still full of grace? Better to wear Dutch cap or wad And after their debauching, use Syringe or douche away abuse, Without a sin, trusting in God, Argument on the Seventh Hill, Clarke attacks again and again with his vile...
Okerman, a miler for most of the season, ran a personal best of 1:52.5 and finished second in his half mile heat, qualifying for the finals. Although, as Hunt said after the meet "he shot his wad in that first run," and came back with only a 1:56.9 in the second race, Okerman's performance was a fine tribute to the sophomore's dedication and to the coaching staff's personal program for the runner. "Because of all that mile practice I had the stamina to finish strong in the half," Okerman said elatedly after his final race...
...shop that Mr. Doig's father worked in was on strike. The boss who ran the shop called the elder Doig into his office, supposedly to negotiate a settlement. But what the boss really wanted was to buy Mr. Doig's father off. The boss waved a wad of twenty dollar bills--a thousand dollars worth of depression era currency--and told the union leader that the money would be his if he would only convince the men to call off the strike. After a long silence Mr. Doig's father looked at the boss, and with tears welling...