Word: matings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighting except for token, scattered artillery fire. In the midst of it all, a German general flies over to discuss the crisis with the Allied commanders, to see to it that the war of the generals, the statesmen and the profiteers goes on in spite of the stale mate and war sickness that have driven the common soldiers of all the armies into a sense of universal brotherhood and so to mutiny and ceasefire...
...Arbenz, the stubborn, enigmatic career soldier who had started the trouble in the first place by flinging wide the palace doors and welcoming Communists into his government, had plenty to think about. But he may have taken a moment to recall that Castillo Armas had once been a school mate, a fellow graduate of the country's West Point, the Escuela Politecnica...
...last day, with two rugged rounds ahead, handsome, young (23) Gene Littler, last year's amateur champion only lately turned pro, was a nervous two strokes in the lead. Pressing hard to hang on, defending Champion Ben Hogan was in a tie for second. His running mate was Ed Furgol, 37, a tall, gaunt pro from St. Louis' Westwood Club with easily the most distinctive style in the tournament...
Well might sensitive Percy act apologetic, ashamed and guilty. He and Edwina seemed perfectly mated, but Percy refused to mate. He was in love with her yet left her unfulfilled. For weeks poor Edwina tried every device in her varied repertoire, but she could not heat the simmering Percy to an honest boil. Edwina iked. Percy brooded. It was an intolerable situation for an Anthropopithecus Hirsutus Africanus, or, in plain English...
...crew of the Moona Waa Togue, menhaden is known as pogy, and catching pogy (for oils and fertilizer) is the hard work they do from April to November. The fishing day begins at 4 in the morning, when the mate, who tells the story, bangs on the weather-beaten shacks of a Florida port town and rounds up the men; sometimes it ends before dusk, sometimes later. Where the ship hunts for pogy is strictly the business of Captain Crother. a white man who rarely cracks a smile because the Moona Waa Togue is his last stop on a downhill...