Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marine! Burke Davis has written a gaudy, bloody, gung-ho account of the horn combat leader who eagerly went off to war with his green eyes gleaming malevolently, a stubby pipe clenched in his crooked mouth, and a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked into his duffel bag. The son of a wholesale grocery salesman, Chesty Puller-he always walked with his chest up and out, like a pouter pigeon on parade-spent only a year at Virginia Military Institute before quitting in 1918 to enlist in the Marines, only to be thwarted when World War I ended...
...Ties. And at the U.N., two of Castro's Communist friends, Rumania and Czechoslovakia, offered a resolution appealing for an end to U.S. "interference in the internal affairs" of Cuba. "Uncle Sam,'' cried the Cuban delegate, "took his trip to Punta del Este carrying a bag of gold in one hand and a bloody dagger in the other." Apparently, the Reds hoped to draw anti-U.S. support from the Afro-Asian bloc. But the Afro-Asians seemed to regard it all as an inter-American quarrel. Brazil, speaking as a member of the so-called "soft...
...Snell is the fastest middle-distance runner in the world. Fortnight ago at Wanganui, N.Z., he outdistanced a star-studded international field by 25 yds. and set a world record of 3 min. 54.4 sec. for the mile. Last week in Christchurch, Snell added two more records to his bag. Finishing a fantastic 100 yds. ahead of the U.S.'s Jim Dupree, Snell streaked through 880 yds. in 1 min. 45.1 sec. On the way, he was clocked at 1 min. 44.3 sec. for the shorter 800-meter...
...Forster's provincial Indian town of the 1920s, the British raj condescendingly called social events attended by both races ''bridge parties." The play opens with such a party. Fielding (Portman), the government college principal and a man too decent to play raj, has invited a mixed bag to tea. Among his guests are a pair of British ladies-who want to see India. One of them, lanky, pink, ditherish Miss Quested (Anne Meacham), who has come from England to be married; and Mrs. Moore (Gladys Cooper), the mother of Miss Quested's fiancé. They meet...
Assembly, by John O'Hara. More than most short-story collections, this is a mixed bag; O'Hara is very good when he depends on his unmatched skill at seeing and hearing, and very bad when he ventures into abnormal psychology...