Word: grapefruits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order from the general, an orderly brought yellow pears, as large as grapefruit. As we ate, the general traced the Central China battle on the palm of his hand. Twelve miles eastward his old comrade, Lieut. General Huang Po-tao, was encircled in an area 3½ miles in diameter around the rail town of Nienchuang. In eleven days of fighting Huang had lost 40,000 troops. From his position north of the Lunghai railway, General Li was punching east to relieve Huang. In a parallel position south of the railway, Lieut. General Chiu Ching-chuan's Second Army...
...night last week, in Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, a cheery, talkative group of 2,000 men & women enjoyed a birthday party. They seemed to be having a fine time, in spite of tackling a routine banquet menu (grapefruit, chicken, peas, ice cream) without any preliminary cocktails. The celebration was the 14th anniversary of Alcoholics Anonymous. The two anonymous founders, Bill, a Manhattan stockbroker, and Bob, an Akron physician, were there to tell about A.A.'s growth...
...grabbed a fiddle, and got in the act. But when Reece grabbed the microphone and started to speak, a rotten egg sailed out of the night. It hit him in the back. Two tomatoes, another egg, and a lemon spattered down. Acuff was hit in the side with a grapefruit...
...crash scorched one side of the tree, whose branches now hang black and dead, while they warmed the other side into defiant, unseasonable bloom. Last week beneath the tree were small bunches of asters in a cracked, cheap drinking glass, and forget-me-nots in an empty grapefruit...
...game. The Elis led at the end of the first two chukkers, 18 to 0, while in the last two the score was much closer, 5 to 4. "Indoor polo is a higher scoring game than outdoor," players point out. An inflated leather ball, about the size of a grapefruit, is used instead of the usual willow root variety, which is harder to drive. This means scoring...