Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bag. In Columbia, S.C., a court attendant looked for Charles Caughman, the complaining witness in a trial, and found him sitting on the jury...
...Treasury's 19 advertising and promotion men under able, talkative Max B. Cook, of Scripps-Howard, had done their dazzling best to coax, lure, bewitch, shove, smash and plaster U.S. citizens into buying $15 billion in war bonds. Promoter Cook and staff used every trick in the bag - and thought up new ones. Audaciously they even had Secretary Morgenthau wangle a bond plug from Joseph Stalin (". . . help the joint efforts of the Allies to achieve victory" - see p. 36). Their goal this time: the "little man," as most war bonds thus far have been bought by corporations, banks, insurance...
...declaration sank in, it became clear that this was the greatest tactical advance politically made by the Republican Party in years. For once, the party had not set itself up as a helpless punching bag for Franklin Roosevelt. Temporarily, at least, it bound up all quarrels within the party. And it put the next move for the enunciation of a U.S. foreign policy squarely up to the Democrats...
Floods destroyed the Bengal rice crop during the last growing season, but they were merely an addition to India's ancient bag of ills. Provinces with plentiful food supplies are indifferent to the suffering of their neighbors. Rice, at six times its normal price, is far beyond the reach...
...capturing a German machine gun singlehanded in World War I. In the 1920s he was one of the Army's top airship pilots. Nine years ago he and Captain Albert W. Stevens took an Army-National Geographic Society balloon to 60,613 ft. over South Dakota before the bag ripped and they had to leave their airtight gondola (roared Bill Kepner into his radio mike: "This damned thing has gone nuts!") Not until the gondola had plummeted to 500 ft. did he jump. It was his last big experience with ballooning. Already an airplane pilot, he became...