Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last I Saw . . ." The toll included a bag of 10,000 Chinese prisoners-more than three times as many as had surrendered in all the previous months since Red China's intervention. Early last week, while the Red defense was just firming up, a group of 300 Chinese surrendered to U.S. airmen. They had been hit hard by artillery, and when the planes came over they leaped out of their holes, waving white cloths or holding their hands over their heads. While the planes circled, the Chinese walked to a British infantry position and gave themselves...
...Just let the press and the Republicans become a little more vicious and the Democrats will have the next election in the bag...
...will to win is not enough, and no one knows it better than scrappy Paul Richards. His managerial bag of tricks includes some eye-poppers. Recently, against the Boston Red Sox, Richards relieved Pitcher Harry Dorish, plunked him on third base, and brought in Lefthander Bill Pierce to pitch to lefthanded slugger Ted Williams. Williams popped up, Pierce left the game, Dorish went back in to pitch, and the White Sox finally won in eleven innings. Richards explains the switch, which is no novelty in sandlot ball but a rarity in the big leagues, with a characteristic comment: "I play...
This is all to the good, for a year of serious study would show that these bills, are aimed wrong. Their target is supposedly the bevy of real Communists in the Commonwealth, but all that they would bag after a year or so of impassioned shooting would be a large number of patriotic men with unorthodox political views...
Scooting around the first-base bag like a hopped-up jackrabbit one night last week, Cleveland's Rookie Outfielder Harry Simpson handled the new position without an error and cracked out two hits in three times at bat as the Indians beat the Boston Red Sox, 7-1. Rookie Simpson, substituting for injured Luke Easter, turned in a bang-up performance in his first-base debut. But the occasion was noteworthy for another reason too. It was the first time in the major leagues that one Negro had substituted in the starting line-up for another...