Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basement inventor who was lending real color to the struggle. One offered a drawstring bag to be yanked over the head and cinched up tight in times of peril. A patent-medicine mixer gave the public "U-236 Atomic Shock Cure" for a while, but the Public Health Service frowned-it consisted of table salt, bicarbonate of soda and water...
...central front, was typical. A North Korean rearguard clung to its one-man pillboxes studding Tombstone's flank. The fortifications were foxholes, each roofed over by a three-foot layer of logs, stones and earth. Each man inside had plenty of ammo and a two days' bag of rice. U.S. Marine Corsairs blasted Tombstone with rockets, seared it with napalm. Shell bursts enveloped it. G.I.s crawled up, peppering the enemy's pillboxes with small-arms fire. Those who survived held off the U.N. attack for two days, then slipped away under cover of night...
Behind one cluster of huts in a small gulch, the paratroopers had collected a bag of approximately 130 North Korean soldiers and a lone Chinese straggler. The P.W.s gaped at the drop zone, now bristling with the tanks, soldiers and guns of Task Force Growdon. Along the ridges and on the paddy fields within the paratroopers' perimeter lay some 300 dead North Korean Reds...
Before the Senate Banking subcommittee investigating influence in the RFC, Director Dunham, 69, leaked excuses like a wet paper bag. But his story was the most detailed report yet of the sordid state of influence peddling, political wangling and general stockjobbing into which the once-great RFC had fallen...
Ferrer's show, aimed at listeners who were discourages in their youth by a "day and dusty classroom introduction to the master," offers a grab-bag variety of Shakespearean scenes, soliloquies, entire plays. For radio serial lovers, there is a four-installment version of Julius Caesar complete with synopses ("Amid the carnival-like entry of Caesar, the procession passes through the streets of Rome, leaving behind Brutus, who ponders Caesar's behavior, and Cassius, who waxes lean and hungry with petty resentment..."). Amatuer talent scouts had a chance to vote for the best of three recorded Hamlets (John...