Word: holing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bogart reaches a lonely water-hole and tries to trick a thirsty (water-thirsty this time) German battalion into surrender, although the well has run dry. The trick doesn't quite work, and our team has to fight it out. Most of them get killed, but Hairbreadth Humphrey and another Yank capture what is left of 500 Germans. It all sounds like a Hollywood fairy tale, but is staged convincingly...
Crimson backs were romping through or around the line for five yards a shot without any trouble at midfield, when the soldiers were playing a six-man line with a gaping hole between the guards. In scoring territory they shifted to a tight seven which stopped the ground attack cold...
Since the days of the Conquistadors Mexicans had heard cries in the night from that haunted spot near Taxco. They called the 20-ft.-wide hole in the ground the Devil's Nostril, knew it as a pit of death. How many skeletons were mouldering on the bottom, how deep it was, no man could say. Geologists had once probed 380 ft. straight down; one man had once descended part way, and lived to tell about it. He found two Aztec daggers...
...Hitler's Children. That afternoon he gave Author Ziemer's agent $250 for a month's option on the film rights. Next day he started making the rounds of Hollywood's Manhattan story editors. He got nowhere, renewed his option twice, was $750 in the hole and all but broke when RKO's then-President George Schaefer decided to chance it. Golden closed the deal with Ziemer's agent for $5,000-which Ziemer graciously accepted in lOUs. From the Guaranty Trust Co. Golden got a verbal commitment for financing...
...hero of the Varsity game was Roger Lazarus, who was the beneficiary of a hole left when Bob Woodside drew off the French fullbacks. Lazarus used it to power the ball, driving it through the uprights into the high part of the net, out of the reach of the French goalie...