Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Africa was really hard-hit, suffering the worst drought in a century. In many parts of South Africa, once high corn and grazing land looked, after the 14-month drought, like scorched earth. At Mombasa, the game warden for the Kenya coast reported some 5,000 elephants stampeding toward the coast in search of water...
Dimitrios played a double game. He maintained a secret organosis of villagers who acted as informers for the Communist guerrillas and laid mines to blow up government transport. For three years, day & night, peasant women had sneaked through fields, hiding mines beneath their wide woolen petticoats, and dreamy-eyed shepherds had leaned on their crooks, watching for government convoys...
Slaughter (three out of six) and Pitcher Howie Pollet (who muffled the Dodger bats): Cards 14, Dodgers 1. In the fourth game, the Dodgers recovered their aplomb sufficiently to tie the Cards, 4-4, in a contest cut short to let both teams catch trains for the West. League leaders (by half a game): the St. Louis Cardinals...
...such profound cold the molecules will be almost deathly still. Zero itself'will not have been reached. Ityis a will-o'-the-wisp game that physicists play: zero can be pursued and approached, but never actually captured...
...Army Game. In Alexandria, Va., ex-G. I. Norman Harris, charged with impersonating a soldier, explained that he had put on the uniform only to get into Fort Belvoir for a game of cards with some of the boys...