Word: bags
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel General Goring proceeded from Rome last fortnight to Bled, a resort in Yugoslavia. There he talked Nazi business with elegant Prince-Regent Paul who already has an understanding with Italy. Hungary, to the north of Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria to the east, are already in the Italian bag. Rumania is next on the list for conversion by Missionary Mussolini. Significantly Poland's pro-Nazi Foreign Minister Joseph Beck three weeks ago was in the Rumanian capital to explain that "Rumania is necessary to Poland's security because of Russia's nearness." Foreign Minister Beck, in earnest conversations...
...began maneuvering to land. It circled twice, then dropped to 500 ft., occasionally spewing water ballast. At 7:20 p.m. precisely, two lines fell from the bow. A trained squad of Navy men grabbed one, a squad of civilians the other. Gently the two groups began coaxing the big bag to the mooring mast. The breeze teasing the tail made it more difficult than usual. Captain Pruss put the two Mercedes-Benz Diesel engines in the stern gondolas into reverse to keep from overshooting the mast. Witnesses noticed that the port motor was backfiring...
Here came the freak of fortune which spelled defeat for the Crimson. Bob Gannett batting for Ingalls, drove out a hit along the third base line. The ball struck the bag, bouncing back into the infield. What should have been a two-bagger and might have scored Shean with the tying run was only a single, and when hurler Bruninghaus tossed out Art Johns, the game was over...
...first Olympic race, third in his second, 27th in his third; why he found Olympic competition the least enjoyable of his career; how he trained by running nine miles to work and back in Medford, Mass; how before the Brockton Marathon in 1911 he breakfasted on 12 oranges, a bag of pine nuts and a pound of caramels; how to dodge traffic in a marathon; and how he kept going between marathons as printer, scoutmaster, schoolteacher, soldier...
Intervention. Obviously Spain's Civil War still depended largely on decisions yet to be made by Europe's Baldwins, Blums, Hitlers, Mussolinis and Stalins. Il Duce with a characteristic gesture last week opened the bag of information about Spain which his espionage service keeps replenishing daily, shook out through his press spokesman Editor Virginio Gayda of Giornale d'ltalia whole pages of minute particulars of Soviet, French and other "neutral" aid to the Spanish Leftists. So rich was this shower of charges in detail that only the chiefs of other espionage services were in a position...