Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beatings each a year. The approved schools in England and Wales listed 2,968 beatings last year. Local education authorities have the legal right to inflict corporal punishment in Britain, and the Home Office even provides some rules on how it should be done. The cane must be a yard long and between 8 mm. and 10 mm. thick. A boy cannot be beaten with his trousers off or with his shirt tail pulled...
Smith agreed. Whereas indoors it would look like just a jumble of wooden beams, under the trees in Nowak's yard it really becomes a kind of whimsical grasshopper, assuming all the delightful associations with which James Joyce loaded the word...
...comic in its utter meaningless. The singer turns on and the song turns more dreamlike, ushering forth a complex metaphor to rank with Dylan's best. "Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire/ And though the holes were rather small/ They had to count them all..."--this refers to Scotland Yard's search for bodies buried in a moor. The method they used was to sink poles in the earth and sniff the ends for the odor of decomposing flesh. "Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall," the song continues. I.E., now they know that...
...despite it all, neither the great Unitas nor his replacement, Jim Ward, tossed a touchdown. They left that to Terry Southall, who hit fullback Jim Baldwin on a 72-yard play that left more than a couple of Patriots red-faced and trailing far behind...
Gino Cappelletti booted a 37-yard field goal for the Patriots sole score...