Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grab-bag Derby this year," said Bill Corum. president of Churchill Downs. Jockey Eddie Arcaro agreed: "I wouldn't be surprised if any one of 15 horses wins it." Added Greentree Stables' Trainer John Gaver: "This will be the damnedest rat race of all time...
Closest of all to form-in their own way -were the unpredictable Brooklyn Dodgers. They won games that were all but lost with flourishing rallies in the late innings. But they booted games that were already in the bag. Against Cincinnati last week the Dodgers got four walks, 14 hits, including a homer and two doubles, yet managed to lose...
Along the stretch of road leading from the Hungarian border post of Rajka to the Austrian frontier station at Nickelsdorf walked a man carrying a suitcase and a traveling bag. He was pale, with deep shadows under his eyes; every few moments, he paused to catch his breath. An official U.S. car drove up, and out jumped a U.S. diplomat. "How are you, Bob?" cried Hal Ekern of the U.S. High Commissioner's staff in Austria. "Let's go, let's get out of here...
...that out by asking him before Thompson ever came to Washington. But Thompson was already in the capital, so he was shunted from job to useless job. He complained to Harry Truman, who promised to look into it, but still the farce went on. Last week he packed his bag and left Washington with a loud blast...
...Seattle, angered by a trolley motorman who forgot to call out her stop, a woman passenger 1) beat him with her umbrella, 2 ) followed him to a telephone and yanked it off the wall when he tried to summon help, 3) pelted him with canned goods from her shopping bag, 4) smashed the window of another trolley when its motorman refused to let her board...