Word: cart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There weren't enough bows for the fiddles, so some played pizzicato (plucking) all the time. To get hair to make more bows for the fiddles, the prisoners surreptitiously plucked strands from the tail of the horse that pulled their food cart at mealtimes. How did his orchestra sound? "Well, not like the New York Philharmonic." How was the violin he played himself? "Fine," said Violinist Goldberg, "except it had guitar strings...
...first light of dawn, soldiers carrying huge bowls of steaming rice cautiously picked their way down the trench-laced narrow streets. A donkey hitched to an ancient wooden-wheeled cart, loaded with shining black 105 mm. shell cases, munched slowly...
...Will Stay." A more common attitude was expressed by a Tangshan miner in blue dungarees, driving a donkey cart heaped with coal. "My life is now bitter," he said. "For ten shifts I get a bag of flour. For 20 shifts I get a ration of coal." Would he flee if the Reds came? The miner snorted. "Flee? Flee where? To America?" A crowd of workmen chorused their agreement. "Nothing could be much worse than our life now," said one. "We will stay...
...last quarter-century, the big upsets have come in the Stadium. Four times in 1925, 1931, 1937, and 1939--Crimson and Blue have upset the apple-cart...
Vanderbilt Upset the Cart...