Word: wads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patient's eyeball at the exact junction of the transparent cornea and the white sclera. With a snip of his scissors, he cut out a tiny section of the iris. Then, with a deft motion, he flipped out the cataract-clouded lens. One of the assistants slapped a wad soaked with boric acid on the eye, tied a bandage in place, and the operation was over. Average time: 40 seconds...
...been halted, that a major enemy breakthrough could be prevented. The ist Cavalry Division, aided by British and Turks, was rushed to plug the enormous gap in the Tokchon sector where the R.O.K. II Corps had been shattered. It was like trying to plug a fire hose with a wad of chewing gum. The cavalrymen were beaten back 30 miles to Sinchang, then lost the town and fell back still farther...
Look, Judge. Joe stood up, chewing a wad of gum nervously, but he looked directly at Judge Leibowitz. He talked out of the side of his mouth, and his words came hard and fast. "Look, judge," he said, "sending him to jail isn't going to correct conditions . . . What do you want us to do? It wasn't his fault. Not any more than it was ours. It was an accident." Joe paused, and there was a note of bitterness in his voice. "And you're not going to reform him by sending him to jail...
...remembering a buoyant, carousing young man of 24 who blew into the majors from the Nebraska plains in 1911 and promptly won 28 games with the Philadelphia Phillies, a freshman record that has never been approached. Grover Cleveland Alexander, with fireball, fast curve, boundless self-confidence, and a big wad of chewing tobacco tucked in the corner of his grinning mouth, hit the National League like a meteor, and managed to keep his big-league glow for 20 years...
...Counsellor's office. The telephone began ringing incessantly. There were 100 veterans milling about, waving signed but blank checks. "What's the story?" they shouted. Then someone on Miss Witt's staff discovered the trouble: the Veterans Administration's check writing machine had stopped and left a big wad of them undone...