Word: footing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Floating Luggage. The Pasado was a yacht all right, but she had been built in the mid-'20s to accommodate six people. The 96-foot vessel had done a hitch in the Coast Guard during the war, and she was greasy, grimy and sooty. Later the passengers agreed that they should have backed out right then & there. But Charlie said things would be cleaned up on the way to Honolulu...
...eastward thrust toward the coast, to cut the Shanghai-Canton railroad and encircle Shanghai itself. Another Red force, farther north, was thrusting toward Hangchow, 121 miles from Shanghai. The capture of Shanghai itself seemed near. Its main defense was a pathetic wooden fence, 35 miles long, fashioned from 10-foot stakes (originally UNRRA lumber). In the Shanghai-Hangchow area, 350,000 Nationalist troops were being pressed in a pocket against...
...unsuspecting Jack Campbell walked into the city room in the garish green Moorish castle that houses the Her-Ex, Red Nichols' band struck up Happy Birthday, and the staff presented the boss with a ten-foot bull whip and a wristwatch. As he took them, tears rolled down the grizzled cheeks of hard-boiled Jack Campbell. Before long, more than tears was flowing: friends had sent over a supply of liquor. By the time the gang got through a fancy buffet lunch (courtesy of the Southern Pacific), a woman sword swallower had dropped in from a circus to swallow...
...Carduff was outstanding both at the plate and at his second base position. His eighth inning triple knocked in the eight and ninth Crimson runs, and he missed a steal of home with the tying run by less than a foot a few seconds later...
...entries, all seniors, will huddle, shivering, along the starting line at the foot of Tower Court hill. They will be attired in caps and gowns, the latter rolled up to permit sprinting. Each girl will have a hoop...