"[T]he whole nine-yards" (July, 1956)

[Bonnie Taylor-Blake]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake
<b.taylorblake at gmail.com> wrote:

> The article highlights the prizes offered (the Grand Prize is a 14'
> foot, boat trailer, and Evinrude motor, as well as a couple presumably
> terrific fishing rods; smaller prizes, for individual events, are also
> presumably great rods of the day),

Oops, make that 14' boat.  Judging by the sizes of members of the UK
basketball team, I know things are big in Kentucky, but I imagine
nobody has a 14' foot.

-- Bonnie

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