Word: bacons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spearhead of the Eliot attack was gridman Loren MacKinney, who placed in six of the eleven events, Langdon Burwell, his teammate, and captain of the cross country team, brought home the bacon for Eliot in both the 600 and 1000 yard runs...
Contrary to the standard horse opera formula, in this show the Mountics don't get their man--the Texas Rangers walk off with him, and the Redcoats get only their woman. But Madeleine Carroll is the Canadian's bacon; so it would seem that Uncle Sam got the short end of the foreign exchange again. In contrast to the prim cold beauty of the blonde nurse, Paulette Goddard plays a passionate halfbreed who nearly loses the Northwest for the Union Jack by tempting a policeman from his post during an Indian rebellion. Shot in technicolor, Paulette is more enervating than...
...Holmwood, Notou, Ringwood, Triona, Triadic, Triaster, Vinni. Most male prisoners were jammed into the Tokyo Maru under machine-gun guard. Once 132 of them were kept under hatches for three days without fresh water, bedded down with a herd of pigs. Their food was black bread, raw sausage and bacon. Aboard the Manyo Mam the women fared little better. Fifteen of them were crowded into a 12-by-10-foot cubbyhole below the water line, with no water for bathing, scanty food. Once they were allowed to go on deck to see the funeral of a woman who had died...
There, finding that he has rather enjoyed killing four men, he is shocked out of his faith in violence or in anything else. He returns to London, is picked up by some "adult Bohemians." At the end he is on the verge of rebuilding the world through a Gloucestershire bacon-cooperative and handicraft-eisteddfod. World War II interrupts these frowsy plans, ends this "record of what many young men in England thought and experienced during the latter half of the vanished...
...vessels, all seeking to stay out of Britain's reach. Mr. Cross stated perfectly openly: "I naturally cast a covetous eye on those vessels." He covets also some 300,000 U. S. tons now lying idle in port. He recalled that the U. S. saved Britain's bacon in 1918 not so much by fighting in France as by producing 3,033,000 tons of shipping (up from 998,000 tons in 1917) and he made clear that the sea war was the real, basic war again this time...