Word: chalk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around the square, the loafers settled back and talked it over: "He was a bad nigger, all bad." Picky Pie had worked in the chalk mines, but mostly he bootlegged liquor. He had been arrested several times before, once for shooting at a white boy just to make him jump. They snorted at the reports that he supported his crippled father and three sisters besides his wife and three children...
...morning at week's end, fugitives from Shanghai arrived at Lunghua airport, found the field deserted, a brief message scrawled in chalk across the schedule board. The message read: "Evacuated at midnight." That afternoon, some 750 miles to the south in Hong Kong, an American pilot who had flown one of the last planes out of Shanghai shrugged and said: "Looks like we'll all be going home soon. We're running out of cities to evacuate...
Hurley sweated over his docile pupil. He put hobbles on Foster to make him keep his legs closer together, made chalk marks on the floor to show him where to put his feet. "The whole secret of fighting is balance and leverage," Hurley kept saying. Foster kept on looking perplexed...
...chalk-white modern theatrical mask was stolen from the Germanic Museum late Friday afternoon, leaving professors and police baffled for a motive...
...Dinner," is rumored to be up in the 5-digits, but the Club apparently is going to be able to meet its old debts from the profits. If the HDC can begin its new production next fall with a clean financial slate, then perhaps it will be able to chalk up something more creditable on its artistic slate, which is rather smudged of late...