Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trucks. Chrysler's Army Truck Proving Ground adjoins the new Dodge Truck plant on Detroit's Mound Road. Of the 79,000 trucks which the Army is getting from Chrysler, 55,000 have been delivered. All four-wheel drives, they range from half-ton command cars (two-seaters with a canvas top and a snub-nose hood) to one-and-a-half-ton "cargo motor transports" (plain, everyday small-size trucks). For the benefit of the visitors barrel-bellied "Frenchy" Raes, chief test driver for Dodge, gave one of the little command cars and a truck the works...
...Churchill boarded the Augusta, moving jauntily in his cocky walk, a long, specially made cigar crunched in his teeth. He wore his Trinity House uniform of dark blue, the effect of its eight brass buttons slightly marred by the grey marks where he had hastily brushed away the little mound of silver grey cigar ash that collects on his stomach as he sits slouched down.* His zippered ankle-high shoes were half unzipped. He handed a letter to Franklin Roosevelt, said: "I have the honor, Mr. President, to hand you a letter from His Majesty the King...
That started a Dodger slump: they lost seven of their next ten games. Whitlow Wyatt, their best pitcher (when he strolls to the mound, some Dodger fan usually screams: "T'row it down d'eir t'roats, Whitelaw!"), lost three games in a row. Rookie Pete Reiser, who was leading the league in hitting, suddenly found it hard to connect. While Lippy's boys were losing nine out of twelve games, the Cardinals won nine out of twelve. Last week, St. Louis was on top by two full games. It looked like a dogfight...
Then the sirens shrieked. "The stretcher party began to carry the body down from the mound. There was a heavy thump as a big bomb fell somewhere...
...mound shuddered. So they took...