Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...orderly, Sergeant "Micky" McKeogh, onetime bellboy at New York's Plaza Hotel, in an unpretentious eight-room cottage near headquarters. One room was full of gymnasium paraphernalia, which the general studiously avoided except upon rare occasions when he took an exasperated belt, in passing, out of the punching bag...
...Jack Frost says, "Gaines is the only man in the world whose Seeing Eye dog needs a Seeing Eye dog."--Bob "Pancho" Bisbe, for his gallant, well-concealed maneuver in removing one ambidextrous spider from a friend's neck--Vern Nelson for marching all the time without his book-bag...
...casualties were much lighter than expected. Conversely the signs of tactical surprise among German front-line troops were greater than anyone had hoped. By week's end the Allies had taken 6,000 Axis prisoners. Considering the proved military quality of the German outfits, it was a fat bag, indicated that some divisions may have been shot apart so badly that they could no longer function as units...
...reappears, happily leading a jumble of discontented people who find the existing administration of British affairs unendurable. The jumble is called 'Common Wealth.' . . . His intelligence is very limited and unstable. He is as imitative as a monkey, any claptrap that seems to be popular goes into his bag and any 'religious' cant, and his ambition for 'leadership' is uncontrollable...
...Does it falsify the scores? Does it include planes destroyed on the ground? Does it employ tactics saving the sure "kill" for the top officers of the squadrons? Of one thing airmen were certain: very few men anywhere could stand the nervous strain of enough air battles for a bag of 177 or even 116 enemy craft...