Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Cigar & Mustaches. But succeeding generations never got around to it and Alfalfa Bill was too busy to give it much thought...
...Okinawa, where more than four years ago U.S. arms won a famous and a costly victory (80,000 dead & wounded), General Douglas MacArthur's Pacific command has carried on a postwar occupation without much notice from the outside world. TIME Correspondent Frank Gibney toured the all-but-forgotten island, cabled...
Meanwhile, a rash of "sabotage" trials had broken out in Poland. The head of the state farms in Qlsztyn was sentenced to be hanged for "deliberately failing to carry out the state plan." In Lodz, five state bank directors were sent to prison for "mismanagement of state finances." So much administrative talent had been axed that President Bierut found it necessary to instruct party officials to avoid "all hasty and imprudent dismissals...
...Brooklyn Dodgers, he had been the league's batting champion (.342) and leading base stealer. The award would give him extra leverage in prying more salary out of Boss Branch Rickey than the estimated $22,000 he got this year. Said Robinson: "I don't know how much there was to those rumors about Mr. Rickey wanting to sell me, but I know one thing. I'll never leave Brooklyn. If I was sold . . . I'd quit." He might quit anyhow, he thought, after one more season. It was also a big week for Jackie Robinson...
...average day's costs at $30, or $7.50 for each duck if the hunter got the four-duck limit. Even that made no allowance for gear, ammunition or guns-which ranged from ordinary twelve-gauge single-barrels to over-and-under pieces that could cost as much as $2,500. To the habitués it was worth...