Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange, painful excitement.. That was out at Chicago's Wrigley Field near the end of the 1946 season when Eddie was playing first for the Cubs. Ruth fell hard. She stopped loving Movie Actor Alan Ladd, wrote off a passing outfielder and decided to do something big some day about Eddie, namely, kill...
...found life inexpressibly boring. She was a $37.50-a-week insurance-company typist who wanted to be a model, but thought she was too "nervous." Besides, while she was almost six feet tall, she was skinny, and her dark, curling hair framed only a flat face with a big nose...
...Foreign Ministers' deputies were instructed to draft an Austrian treaty and submit it to their bosses no later than Sept. i. During the next U.N. Assembly session in New York in September, the Big Four would try to arrange for another Foreign Ministers' meeting. This was what diplomats call "keeping the door open...
...Boss. The tidings of his son's victory reached Ma Pufang as he was settling down in his big stone headquarters outside the walls of Lanchow, gateway to the Northwest. The dying Nationalist government had appointed him supreme commander of an area about 13 times as big as Texas, mostly wasteland, underdeveloped and underpeopled (about 14 million-one-third Han Chinese, one-third Moslem Chinese, and the remainder Tibetans, Turkis, Mongolians, Kazaks). Ma's elevation put the Northwest on its own. His land was a poor holding in comparison with the lost coastal regions and lush river valleys...
...jail riots brought up Congress big guns. Prime Minister Nehru, who seldom intervenes in local elections, sent a message endorsing faithful Suresh Das, decrying Bose's tactics: "I fail to see how unbalanced attacks on Congress and destructive criticism can help the country in any way." Deputy Prime Minister Sardarj Patel was blunter: "China, Malaya and Burma have all a lesson to teach us. If we fail to learn it, Bengal would be the first to suffer...