Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onions can be found in public mar kets. At an auction last week for London's War Weapons fund, a basket of onions brought $137,532- about...
...dogged persistence the heroine at last finds the diamonds. While she transports gasoline (cleverly distilled from natural jungle oils) to Jack Stanton's plane (which will fly the diamonds to safety) in a grass basket suspended from a cable across a treacherous ravine, the basket's supports are shot away from the cable pulley. Undaunted, she grasps the pulley with her bare hands and completes the slide with her precious cargo...
...turn the women over "for protection against bandits." She refused and kept the soldiers out of the compound, even though she herself was beaten and stripped. When the Japanese retired after a month's occupation, she was the first to follow them on the retreat. She tucked a basket of medical supplies under her arm and went up into the hill villages, dressing wounds at every place she stopped. Says TIME'S Chungking correspondent: "She had more guts, more love of humankind, and more fun in her than any other person I've met in China...
...their place in the Anglo-U. S. world order. If Germany wins, they can bargain for concessions from both the U. S. and Totalitaria. And so, as long as the issue of the war is in doubt, they hesitate to put all their eggs in the Anglo-U. S. basket...
...visitors were tall and rangy and able to smother any ambitious Crimson hoopman who tried to work the ball in close to the Yale basket. As a result, Harvard had to confine itself to pot shots from far out on the floor or hurried one-handers from bad angles. Harvard took 78 shots to Yale's 68 during the course of the evening but was never able to get the Blues on the run and force them into committing fouls. Four chances from the foul line were all that the Crimson had to show for the entire game, while...