Word: bottlesful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly before dawn the battalion commander, burly Lieut. Colonel John Toffey, stopped his men at an abandoned farmhouse and set up his command post there. The medics took over the crude workshop, and began unpacking packages and plasma bottles in the dark. The Colonel ordered most of the men into...
Salad Day. In Chicago, John Newman confessed to police that he had broken into three stores, gobbled six pounds of potato salad, nine bottles of pop, 20 pounds of fruitcake.
The Shortages. Tops on the list of things that most shoppers cannot get are dependable toys. Cracked a Newark merchant, of the wood and cardboard substitutes for metal trains, wagons and toys: "They won't last until Christmas . . . and probably not long after Christmas either." Also missing from most...
Small World. In Los Angeles, two cars collided; the drivers turned out to be J. D. Wiener and Alfred Hamburger; the victim of another crash, involving a couple of thieves making off with stolen bottles oi gin, turned out to be Tom Collins.
No one is quite sure what it is about Frankie that changes an apparently normal young-or-not-so-young girl into a raving manlae. Scientists have advanced various theories, but the one we like best is that of a girl who, after sitting through six performances, sobbed out that...