Word: haystacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Agents on the trail of a phony farmer saw a hand in a haystack, pulled out their quarry, who explained: "I was just getting ready to give myself...
...lich's sports arena was an oval enclosure formed by a mound eight or ten feet high, in which were three football fields and a concrete swimming pool. U.S. artillery and planes dealt the defenders a merciless beating. A pillbox under a haystack was unmasked and heavily shelled. But when the infantry moved in across open fields, German mines and machine guns time & again drove them back. A bridge over which the defenders got reinforcements was knocked out by the Ninth's cannon every day. Every night the Germans put it up again...
...haven't been a straw in our G.I. haystack long enough to have experienced the despair, nor am I qualified to express the sentiments of a veteran campaigner, but for my part portions of "When the Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead . . ." (TIME, April 24) deserve prominence atop an imaginary marble pedestal in our nation's literary hall of fame...
...Child Is Born. The sky had clouded over. It grew colder. Major Bill Rosson, of Eugene, Ore., whose men were not yet committed, came over the edge of the ditch. He sat down and bubbled: "We just pulled into that haystack ahead at 3 a.m. when an old woman in the farmhouse started having a baby. Doc Rhodes delivered the brat. He weighed about seven pounds-a nice kid. The Italians wanted Doc to name the kid and Doc decided to name him after me. We got in an interpreter and named him 'Guglielmo.' That...
...were unable to watch the races followed them in the newspapers. The London Times published the daily bumps in chart form that, to the uninitiated, looked like sabotage in a wire factory. Each bump was minutely described, with a recording of the exact spot where it occurred-such as Haystack Corners, Free Ferry, The Willows or The Gut -instead of fractional times or distances. Not uncommon were such headlines as "Jesus bumped St. John...