Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rules cost him two strokes and his last chance to stay in the running. Hogan curled in a clinching 50-foot putt for a birdie on the 17th, wound up with another 69, four strokes better than Mangrum, six ahead of Fazio. With his second Open championship in the bag, little Ben Hogan was once again the man to fear...
...balloonist, with Captains Albert Stevens and Orvil Anderson (now an Air Force major general), he took a balloon 60,613 feet into the stratosphere before a rip in the fabric sent the bag plummeting earthward. The three bailed out -Kepner at 500 feet. Then Bill Kepner moved on to airplanes. In World War II he wore a general's stars, but frequently left his desk to fly combat missions. He was chief of the hard-flying Eighth Air Force Fighter Command, a principal Allied weapon in the destruction of the German Luftwa...
...thriving business selling spiritualist charms. There is Attraction Incense, incense "to vibrate the powers of Lady Luck," Compelling Incense, High Conquering Incense ("Its fumes the steppingstone to the mighty conqueror condition"). Harder to find are the brujos, who cure asthma by hanging a tiny dead green frog in a bag around the neck...
...Geysel has become a lot too good to be true during her metamorphosis into The Legacy's heroine, Jean Paget. Jean is a wonderful girl, but she never existed outside a glossy-paper fiction magazine with a woman's angle. While she is in the Japanese bag, an Australian saves her from death. For years she thinks he has died in her place, but after the war, having inherited a sizable legacy, she hears he is alive. Jean goes out to Australia and gets her man. Any ordinary girl would have settled down and lovingly borne...
Unfortunately, Dr. Rosa emphasized, puncturing through the abdomen to the bag of waters to draw off amniotic fluid is likely to be dangerous to both mother & child. In short, the test is only a scientific curiosity, and no use at all in general practice...