Word: arkansans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harlem Globe Trotters, a barnstorming colored basketball team, have produced many a freakish player. None has been more bizarre than their latest find: Reece ("The Goose") Tatum, a 22-year-old Arkansan who stands 6 ft. 3, has a reach (from left to right...
...just another Arkansan who appreciated your splendid comment [TIME, July 27] on our State. We happen to be the location where the Midwesterners have been coming duck hunting for years, also the home of the National Duck Calling Contest. Stuttgart is proud of its latest honor in being chosen as the site of a $9,000,000 air base...
Britain now had the answer. As far as U.S. Army men were concerned, she could bank on it. For years they had said "Watch Somervell," and the lean, easy Arkansan had always come through. He had come through so surprisingly that at 50 he was wearing the three silver stars of a lieutenant general. Still unruffled, still masking his occasional bursts of temper with lurid volleys of good-natured profanity, he bosses the biggest show in the U.S. armed forces. It is likely to become the biggest show in the whole U.S. war effort...
...Burns, bazookist, was sued for $32,738 by Paramount for not going to work in a movie called Joan of Arkansas. Arkansan Burns dubbed the script "disgusting," commented: "All they know at the studio about Arkansas is what they see in the cartoons of a magazine that sells for 50? and whose name I can't seem to recall...
Damaged at a pier in Suez lay the Arkansan (Sept. 11). Unscathed, somewhere in the Atlantic, was the U.S. destroyer Greer, which a Nazi submarine had tried several times, unsuccessfully, to torpedo...