Word: bag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate chamber last week and shouted that the time had come for the U.S. to get out of Europe and stay out. "Spending in Europe is no longer needed," he cried. "This so-called bipartisan foreign policy . . . leaves the Republican Party and the American taxpayer holding the bag...
...lowering night two weeks ago, Mary Cheever put her car in the garage after a P.T.A. meeting. At the mouth of the dingy alley next to her apartment house, a man in a long-visored cap sprang at her. He clawed for her shoulder bag, clubbed her on the head with a pistol, shot her in the back. She screamed three times and died in an ambulance ten minutes later...
After seven exciting weeks of hunting big game in East Africa (bag thus far: five lions, 38 assorted wild critters), beefy Tenor Lauritz Melchior had a narrow squeak. The Metropolitan's veteran dragonslayer fired as a charging Cape buffalo came at him, fired again & again & again, finally dropped the one-ton beast less than ten feet away...
Boats. Manhattan's Bilnor Corp. put on the market a new collapsible Vinylite boat, small enough, when not inflated, to be carried in an overnight bag. Blown up, the boat will carry up to an adult and five children (see cut), can be paddled like a canoe. Prices: $10 (56 in. long...
...said the Spanish embassy. The Franco government won, and De Falla's sister Maria hustled back to Spain with a sackful of his belongings. Since then, she has lived in seclusion with her surviving brother German in the sleepy Andalusian village of San Fernando, jealously guarding a shabby bag which contains La Atlantida-comp-leted down to the last note...