Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven good German divisions had been fighting the Canadians tooth & nail. On the Roer, only six bottom-of-the-barrel divisions, backed up by two armored outfits, had faced the U.S. armies. These hapless rearguards provided most of the 50,000 prisoners which the Allies took in little more than a week...
Edouard Daladier, barrel-chested, bull-necked Munich era Premier of France, wrote from internment in Germany that he was well...
There is fantasy, sweeping and bleak, on the top of Baldy Mountain when John the Witch Boy crawls up from his Stygian haunts to search for his mountain lass; tangy amusement at the cracker barrel and at the revival meeting. There is rollicking music from the deep throats of the mountaineers in church, singing "Lonesome Valley" to save a boy and girl who "pleasured themselves" indiscreetly; and there is delicate ballet in an aura of the supernatural when Lista, the Dark Witch, and Croma, the Fair Witch, jealous of Barbara Allen--"we ain't got nothin' again her, only...
...vaudeville. Generations of hoofers and comedians used it to epitomize U.S. hick towns. But though Peoria, Ill. lies in the corn belt, it is a pretty big town (pop. 105,087). It is also a river town, and it grew up around a whiskey keg, not a cracker barrel. Last week, after a new city primary election, Peoria had occasion to remind itself of its free-&-easy tradition once again...
...Army's marshals and generals, none has been a more dramatic figure, few have been more popular with their men and the Russian public alike than barrel-chested, black-haired Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky. He combined many characteristics that Russians love: energy, muscular strength, stubborn calm, youthful daring, earthiness. He was up from the black soil, a worker's son, an orphan at nine, a shepherd in the Ukraine, a cadet at Kiev Military School, a total product of the Soviet state...