Word: ails
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sparking the drive is the Government's Ail-Union Committee for Physical Culture. It is headed by Nikolai Romanov (no kin of the late Czar), who bosses 600 stadiums, 14,000 playgrounds, 6,000 skiing stations, 45,000 volleyball courts. Romanov's job is emphatically part of the Soviet preparedness program...
Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb, bringing back memories of baseball's better days, battled it out at Manhattan's Polo Grounds. The plump Sultan of Swat masterminded his Eastern team to victory over the plump Nonpareil's Westerners in Esquire's annual Ail-American Boys' Game...
Precisely at 9 p.m., the Dominion-wide network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. tied into station CBO, in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier. There, in ail armchair at a desk, sat Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, facing two microphones. He was stripped for action-coat and vest unbuttoned, tie and detachable collar removed (later he spruced up for photographers). For 24 minutes he read from a 4,000-word manuscript, now & then gesturing with his right fast. At countless radios, the people listened...
...year and more the polls had shown MacArthur to be a likely contender. There could be no doubt that hundreds of thousands of plain people (without much ideology) thought highly of him. But still the figurative chairman of the ail-American town meeting never let him become the topic of free and frank discussion. There was, of course, good reason: most of all, the fact that the General himself was working away at his fighting...
...Captain Ross (Dana Andrews) the Japs.attempt no torture, learn nothing from him. Sergeant Skvoznik (Kevin )'Shea) is a former Ail-American, and nobody worries about his cracking. Torture reduces him to idiocy. Lieut. Bay-forth (Charles Russell) comes back to his cell with his mutilated hands concealed by black gloves. Lieut. Vincent (Donald Barry) survives with just enough mind left to stumble through snatches of The Battle Hymn of the Republic...