Word: woodshedding
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¶ In the South, revenooers were still catching moonshiners. The haul for October: 477 stills, 491 woodshed distillers. North Carolina yielded the best hunting: 86 stills, 86 moonshiners.
As the official-and only-Soviet news agency, Tass had dutifully reported the spankings which have lately stung many a Red backside, from the shoemakers to Shostakovich. Last week, it was Tass's own turn to go to the woodshed.
But in the neighboring area of national defense Congress fell short of the mark-and reflected the will of the people in the process. By its clamor to bring the boys home it forced a nervous War Department to pull down its Army: it buried a universal-military-training law...
Get a Horse! In Moscow, Idaho, an eight-year-old boy, held for taking four bicycles in five days, faithfully promised the juvenile court that he would not "borrow" any more bikes. Soon after release, his mother phoned the station, reported he had a colt tied up in the woodshed...
The sequence on the long search for radium in the poor woodshed laboratory of the Curies is so well done that it almost makes the spectator tired. The search progresses until the search seems fruitless and then in a flash they realize their triumph. The triumph may seem anti-climactic...