Word: les
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the train at Dawson Creek on to the crunchy snow to start surveying the route. His was the big worry when scores of cats were bogged down in the slush, and the rains seemed never to stop. Impatient, Hoge steamboated up and down the road in Bush Pilot Les Cook's seaplane, watched the men slogging it through. He said little, eyeing the tremendous job, but every mucker and cat driver knew the general was on the job. "A tough guy, but square," they said. "A regular guy too. He sure likes that Yukon chicken...
...shoe. One out of every four major-leaguers this year is a rookie. And one out of every four rookies looks like a manager's dream. Among the favored candidates this year are three left-handed hitters: Shortstop Johnny Pesky of the Boston Red Sox, First Baseman Les Fleming of the Cleveland Indians, Outfielder Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals...
Announcer on the impromptu show was Les Marcus, a long, lean, droopy-eyed newscaster. After reciting the day's results in the majors, Marcus declared he had seen "a very unsportsmanlike exhibition" a few minutes before. As he worked on his script, he said, he heard a commotion in the street. Rushing out, Marcus said he saw Cop No. 590 cuffing one of two unruly drunks he had arrested...
...Les Marcus thought "the people should know." He angrily corralled some of the spectators and took them with him to the microphone. These men from the street backed Marcus' charges of unnecessary roughness, differed only on how many times the drunk had been knocked down. When the last guest had had his say, Marcus slung his final scallion: "Onions...
...Trouble with Retain. Despite this torrential milking of France, Marshal Petain's collaboration was never 100% satisfactory to the Nazis. Even a year ago the Nazi-kept Les Nouveaux Temps was howling: "Collaboration must be expanded from the economic to the political plane to be really productive. It can be accomplished only by Laval...