Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arguing against a grab-bag veterans' pension bill in the House, Kennedy committed the political sin of insulting the American Legion ("The leadership of the American Legion has not had a constructive thought since...
...opening day of Maryland's goose-hunting season, federal game wardens swooped down on an Eastern Shore passel of 15 hunters, discovered that the surrounding corn field was illegally baited. Among the gunners in the wardens' bag: Lieut. General Edward T. Williams, deputy chief of the Continental Army Command at Fort Monroe. Va., and Major General Rinaldo Van Brunt, Second Army chief of staff at Fort Meade. Md. Maximum penalty (if the baiting rap can be hung on the generals): a $500 fine, six months in jail...
Indonesia's swaggering President Sukarno almost never takes off his black military-cut pitji in public: he doesn't like to reveal the fact that he is getting balder as the years go by. But protective covering is not the only item in Sukarno's bag of political tricks. If Indonesia is in mild difficulty, Sukarno blames "Western colonialism"; if the country's difficulties begin to cause visible concern at home, he produces hair-raising tales of Dutch, English and U.S. sabotage; and when things really get bad, he trots out the tired, threadbare but ever...
Bold Ruler broke on top. But everyone knew he had early foot. He also had Jockey Eddie Arcaro, a race-riding wizard with enough magic to boost a bag of bones out of the starting gate ahead of Man o' War. The big question: Could the Ruler run for a mile and a quarter? Jockey Arcaro never had to ask. Rounding the final turn, his mount had so much left that it hardly seemed like a horse race. Bold Ruler won in a breeze, 2¼ lengths in front of Gallant Man, 10¼ ahead of Round Table. Proud...
...biggest circulation (3,000,000) of any newspaper on the Continent, pays little attention to politics and only skimpily covered Germany's election campaign. He launched it only five years ago after a London trip exposed him to the British popular press. To build readership, he borrowed a bag of tricks from U.S. and British newspapering, e.g., traffic-safety contests, horse-drawn coach rides for every couple married in Hamburg...