Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surrender, filter silently into hiding in the forests when their units are shattered. Their tragicomic air ace, Nitralexis, goes out on reconnaissance in a French biplane of 1918, taking along the nearest things to bombs he can get-empty bottles, old boots, tin cans rolled up in a bag. When Pilot Quayle is shot down in the Greek retreat, it is Nitralexis and a wild mountaineer ("a fine boy if he doesn't kill us") who lead him to safety through the Italian lines and restore him to his Greek sweetheart, paying for their loyalty with their lives...
First star was the sailor: Gunner's Mate Second Class Mel Van Keuren, wounded at Pearl Harbor, where he was the first man to bag a Jap plane. He had studio telephone operators put through a call to a nurse named Rosella Nesgis, in Pearl Harbor. It seems that while nursing Sailor Van Keuren's wounds, Rosella had also read him his favorite comic strips. Hopping to the phone, he blurted happily to her: "I never look at Popeye without thinking...
...Moderne 1900' interiors, on to the pinnacles of bric-a-brac. . . . The heat becomes oppressive; only the darkened room is bearable." Before his eyes swam Beatonesque visions: "Prince Mohammed Ali, heir to the throne and cousin of King Farouk I ... in his tarboosh, morning coat and sponge-bag trousers, with an enormous emerald on one finger." . . . Madam Fouad El Manasterly at soirées in her garden overlooking the Nile. "The glitter of the Turkish standard candelabra and the white-draped musicians in the boats below the window create a romantic effect. They say that Moses was hidden...
...spite of these confusing details, however, the basic fact has been established: the gun is more important than the pen. But this does not mean that every college student should pack his bag immediately and leave for the nearest enlistment office. Rather it means that his task is to stay here and train himself as much as he can until his gun is ready, knowing that he will be told by means of the call to duty when it is. He must train himself to be a better soldier, and to help fill the desperate need for trained men that...
With all the shots in his bag under complete control and with great accuracy on his corner and down-the-line shots, Everts was ahead all the way, winning 6-1, 6-4. Dunlop kept things even in the second set until three all, but then Everts went on to take the next two games with beautiful drop shots and sharply angled placements...