Word: polos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's right hand was doing well enough after an operation to relieve a muscular contraction-a hangover from an old polo injury...
...Polo Grounds last week, a three-ring baseball circus sponsored by the New York Journal-American climaxed a three-month War Bond drive and pitched a whopping $800,000,000 into the U.S. Treasury. From Broadway and Hollywood came Irving Berlin, Jimmy Cagney, Ethel Merman, Cab Galloway, Carole Landis to entertain the bond-buying fans; later a crack Army team played a combination of Dodger-Giant-Yankee favorites (chosen by a summer-long tabulation of individual "performance points" and popularity votes cast by fans, as part-of the war's most elaborate bond-raising scheme...
...interim afternoon, during El Guettar, Allen sat at tea with another officer and a TIME correspondent in the oasis that was his headquarters. He talked of home, of his wife, of Terry Jr. and of how he wanted the boy to be a polo player, of his men and of how "all this talk about Division spirit just means that the men won't let the other men down." His philosophy of the war he gave in four words: "It's crazy, this war." The correspondent jotted down these notes...
...Polish Count Eugene Domski, now a Major in the Polish Army in London; in 1927, to Russian Prince Serge Mdivani, killed in a Florida polo game...
...days after the incident at Marco Polo bridge, the Gissimo spoke: "There is only one thing to do when we reach the limit of endurance: we must throw every ounce of energy into the struggle for our national existence and independence...