Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost every year, when the leaves and the ballots are falling, the U. S. Government takes out a license, takes down a fowling piece, and goes gunning for election frauds. The bag is never very notable, but the bang-bang is heartening and salutary. Last week the loudest shooting came from New Jersey, where vote frauds shook every clump of underbrush...
Pulling a Notre Dame government professor, E.A. Hermens, out of their strategy bag, the anti-Plan E forces led by Councilor Michael A. Sullivan, and Daniel J. Lynch put on a full-dressed rally against the proposed proportional-representation, city-manager form of government in the auditorium of the Latin School last night...
...down and plant his load in a thoroughfare crowded with pedestrians going to work, on a cathedral, a university, a hospital, a railroad station. The Germans called these the "triphammer" blows of "total air war." The British admitted it was the most thoroughgoing treatment they had yet received. Their bag of enemy planes shot down dwindled to discouraging new lows, because the fighter-bombers, once unloaded, were far faster meat than the big-bomber fleets of September. Yet the new damage, while bitter, was actually lighter in sum than September's and in the face of "total...
...lifted up some of the corpses and crawled under them to hide myself. I stayed there for four days, among corpses. Most of them had a bag of catables, such as broad and choose. At night I took some...
...campaign might be in the bag, as many a gleeful Washington New Dealer thought. Nevertheless, an old campaigner was getting ready to put on his campaign...