Word: mats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...construction for Pacific Constructors, Inc., the big moment had come four months before, when the Sacramento River began a regulated flow through outlet valves on the dam's broad, sloping downstream face. "That meant we had the river licked," said Crowe. "Pinned down, shoulders right on the mat. Hell, that's what we came up here...
...came to the U.S. first. As a newsboy, dishwasher and bartender, he soon earned enough to send for the others. He settled Spyros into a job as bus boy in St. Louis' Planters' Hotel. They soon saved enough to buy a nickelodeon and a second-hand wrestling mat. They made money running the movie nights and kept fit by wrestling in the mornings. Charlie shucked off persistent film salesmen with the challenge: "I'll rassle you three minutes, and if I don't make you unconscious I'll buy the film...
...equipment is British-made, and the best. A bat costs $18. Batting gloves are $5 a pair, kneepads $10. The ball costs $5. Because the fields are not surfaced for cricket, each team has to bring its own 20-yd.-long fiber mat ($75 apiece) to cover the pitch (bowling area). The supply of balls is running low, but a shipment from Britain is expected to ease the situation...
...Poor leadership is the major cause for the Army's weakness in morale, in training, in matériel and in tactics...
...tempered Kelly Turner and hot-tempered Holland Smith get along fine -now. Says General Smith: "I like that guy. We fought. We argued like hell. We were nasty to each other. But when we came up from the mat we were friends." Why the Marines? Some theorists claim that marines are good fighters be cause they must always fight, war or peace. More than once Army officers have tried to abolish the Marine Corps -Douglas MacArthur as Chief of Staff had the last notable try. Many a West Pointer will still argue that the picked troops of the Marine Corps...