Word: fistfull
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With all this dark-of-the-moon melodrama behind them, the pair traveled confidently to Bangor, Boston and New York. They had a set of admirably forged draft cards, $60,000 in U.S. currency, and a fistful of diamonds. In Manhattan they browsed in radio shops, openly buying parts for...
Mickey discovered his gift a year and a half ago, seven years after quitting the ring. Someone had sold him a bad painting of a clipper ship and it disturbed him. He tinkered with it. After six months he had changed it into a steamboat. Then he saw a movie...
Major Alexander Prokovieff de Seversky, the indefatigable exponent of Victory Through Air Power, next week takes wing in a new field. He will write a thrice-a-week column on air tactics and strategy for the McNaught Syndicate. Already signed up: 85 papers, including a fistful of big ones (New...
Several weeks before Tunisia fell to the Allies, Reporter Pyle went into battle with the infantry. He was shelled, bombed, strafed, machine-gunned. Once he had, for a whole day, the sole attention of a German sniper. In one day's fighting, he wrote, thousands of shells passed over...
Out of the Agriculture Department came a fistful of figures that should have knocked Congressional farm-bloc arguments into a cocked hat. The statistics proved one point: U.S. farmers collectively are more prosperous than ever before. But to Georgia's Representative Stephen Pace and other farm-bloc members, it...