Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys working hard on backfield tackling and kicking off, two departments which have not exactly shone so far. Chief Boston and Austie Harding a question-mark as to action, the burden is likely to fall on Daughters again. His boots have improved markedly since last Saturday's ground-loopers...
...different island, built of smaller reddish stones, with a sign which labels it Hemenway Gym. It has a crow's nest on top, and it, too, is yet unfinished by man's hand in the interior. Vag makes a mental note that it will make a fine camping ground for a winter afternoon and marks it on his chart. Then, night having fallen, and the navigation hazards consequently having increased, he sets the homeward course to his own private penthouse island, reckoned directly due south from the old Harvard Hall buoy...
Muttering incantations which charmers profess the snakes know and heed, the aged snake man moved about the villa and grounds. "Come forth, O snakes, in the name of Allah! In the name of Allah, O snakes, come out of your holes," he chanted in archaic Arabic. Suddenly he sank to his knees, began to blow a slow, wailing melody on his reed pipe, swaying his body as he played. Out from hiding slid the hooded head of a young cobra, then another and another, until nine young reptiles appeared, raised their bodies from the ground and riveted their eyes...
...convinced ambassador made ready to pay for this service, his servants warned that a huge, full-grown cobra was still in hiding. The charmer resumed his playing and swaying. Soon a much bigger snake than any of the captured nine twisted into the open, slithered across the ground and crawled into the bag with the others...
...suddenly went black. A main supply cable of the Commonwealth Edison Company had failed. Due between seven and nine were a dozen planes, 100 passengers. Unable to warn them because the airport's 14 radio transmitters were dead, quick-thinking operations men dashed to ships still on the ground, flashed the word aloft over battery-run airliner radios...