Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee's busy statisticians counted nearly 25 million bushels already in the bag. Of this amount they figured 12 million bushels saved through the distillers' shutdown, 3,000,000 more from the brewers, 9,000,000 from the bakers. Between them, the Army & Navy expected to save another quarter of a million bushels of wheat within the next six months...
...October, La Courneuve had elected 27 town councillors, 14 of them Communists. One of the 14 was Renée Lehut. Last week the council met in public assembly to choose a mayor. The thing seemed to be in the bag. In a preliminary huddle, the "Cocos" (Commies), holding a majority, had decided to cast a solid vote for one Maurice Léonard...
...President of the Associated Harvard Clubs let the cat out of the bag when he confessed that but for Senator Saltonstall's absence from the sessions a final decision would already have been reached. Now the three-month period until the crucial last meeting provides the opportunity for newly-aroused younger Alumni to show where they stand. Complete, airing of the issue through concentrated Committee attempts to make its activities known in the national Harvard community is the least that should be assumed of a distinguished democratically -conceived body...
Crisler hasn't a single so-called "power play" in all his bag of tricks. Yet he builds his plays on the single-wingback, a formation fundamentally designed for power. On most teams the fullback is a burly, bludgeoning line-plunger. Crisler's fullbacks must be slick ball-handlers; they start most of his plays...
...peripatetic hammer-&-sickle set in South America, it was bag-packing time...