"The Whole Six Yards" (UNCLASSIFIED)
Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Mon Sep 10 19:42:52 UTC 2012
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If I had seen the following before the recent discussion, I'd have
simply thought they were mistakes. Now, I'm not so sure.
[Lafayette GA] _Walker County Messenger_ 25 Apr 1990 p 4A col 4 [Google
News Archive]
"That will be an impossibility until the whole "six-yards" is resolved."
[Florence AL] _TimesDaily_ 26 Apr 1990 p. 8A col 6 [Google News Archive]
" "We had to go the whole six yards on this case," Plott said."
Elaine Dundy _Elvis and Gladys_ Jackson, MS: University Press of
Mississippi, 2004 p. 93 [Google Books]
" "We had them all," says Charlie Boren, "the whole six yards." "
[referring to the many country bands that had appeared on a radio
station]
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