Word: holes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Verdun is still as crusty as ever. In rugged health he spends his days pondering in justice in a large, whitewashed cell furnished with a metal army cot, a dresser, a wooden chair, a kerosene lamp and two clothes presses. Beneath his one barred window is a small round hole which the Marshal is convinced is a peephole. Last month Pétain's jailer added a wicker lounge chair to the meager furnishings, but the prisoner refuses to sit in it. "It's furniture for old people," he snorts...
Isotope Rush. One group of Oak Ridge scientists is already doing a growing business in radioactive isotopes. Every week, with elaborate precaution, they pull a lead plug from a hole in the massive concrete shield around the Clinton pile. Out comes a graphite bar studded with little aluminum cans of chemicals which have been exposed to the storm of neutrons raging inside the pile. These contain the isotopes for which the world of science is clamoring. Sealed in heavy lead shipping cases, they are rushed to hospitals and research laboratories...
Tallyho! Near Bristol, England, a fox led twelve headlong hounds to a cliff's edge, ducked safely into a hole as the dogs plunged over the brink...
...yard marker on two successive passes from Chip Gannon to Captain Cleo O'Donnell, the Cantabs pulled off the neatly-blocked and neatly-faked off-center line smash that is one of Harlow's favorites. Moravec lunged toward the center of the line, then veered over the left guard hole as Coulson took out the backer-up who had been plugging...
...opening period with Dick Coe carrying on a weak-side reverse, after a long punt by Greeley and consistent gains on the ground had brought Eliot to the Puritan 10 yard stripe. The Mastadons struck again in the fourth period when George Strout spurted through a gaping hole in the Winthrop line, then ambled 30 yards to score. Although unable to gain on the ground, the Puritans uncorked a flashy passing attack, which gave them their longest advances...