Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another draw back was the constant presence of chalk dust which permeated the camp in dry weather and overlaid it with "paste" when it was wet. Even towards the end-of the task, the surrounding area was scarred with white chalk marks which gave the workers considerable uneasiness since bombers had a prominent target, but the whiteness was finally plowed under...
...looks of Howard Pollet, a 20-year-old southpaw the Cardinals had just brought up from their Houston farm. Dodger fans had seen enough of one left-handed Cardinal rookie, Ernie White, who had moidered their Bums in the first game of last week's series-to chalk up his 16th victory for St. Louis. The Pollet kid looked even better. In his major-league debut fortnight ago, he pitched a four-hit victory over the Boston Braves. Against the Dodgers last week he matched mighty Whit Wyatt pitch for pitch until the very last inning. Three days later...
...Belgian refugee named Victor de Laveleye first had the idea. In a shortwave broadcast from London to his countrymen he asked them to chalk the letter V (for victoire) in public places as a sign of confidence in their deliverance...
...London bombarded the Continent with exhortations to the people to hold up two fingers like schoolboys, like schoolboys to write in chalk on German officers' backs (see above...
Child Star Judy Garland (now 19) became engaged to Band Leader Dave Rose, 30, just divorced by satchel-mouthed Martha Raye....Oldtime chalk-faced Comedian Harry Langdon's ex-wife asked a California court to O.K. a $60,584 judgement for unpaid support, previously granted in New York....Dorothy Lamour left for Hawaii on the same boat with friend Gregson Bautzer; both denied they'd marry in Hawaii....Torch Singer Lillian Roth's husband drew six months in jail for blacking her eye; she said he had also broken her jaw while courting her....Peggy Shannon...