highball

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Son of a railroadman and educated at the University of Illinois, Aydelott highballed up through the ranks from laborer to gang foreman and track inspector, became trainmaster in 1943 and general manager last year.

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The West Virginia primary campaign highballed into its final week like a Norfolk & Western coal train whistling across a trestle.

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As the silvery Metroliner highballed through New Jersey, Jimmy Carter slumped deeper in his seat and tried to nap.

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Regularly now, two duplicate three-pound packages of film are highballed 9,935 airline miles across this country and over the Pacific.

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Yet Maida's words must have brought to her mind the picture of a highballed garden of orange trees, no further to the west than the western end of that house.

From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)