Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grouse, for whom this is a day of some importance, must view with curiosity not unmixed with satisfaction the progressive weakening of the forces which his enemy is able to put into the field . . . Perched on the crumbling parapet of an ill-drained butt [a dugout for grouse-shooters], he cannot but contemplate with sardonic eye the scanty and dilapidated motor transport assembling at roadhead in the glen below him. The sun . . . no longer flashes from the coachwork of immaculate limousines backing and filling on the turf . . . The escort of dogs is more imperfectly disciplined. The unit has lost most...
...advice. An army major flew in to buy 350 steers for his garrison, and Lohman ordered a couple of Indians to ride north with them on the trail. A mud-spattered Gaucho galloped up with a report from a 100,000-acre pasture 35 miles away. The boss put down his gourd of mate, pulled out a notebook and wrote: "1,250 calves branded this week." That brought the year's total to more than...
...bettors liked Bangaway, an imposing bay trotter who had won most of his races this year, including four stakes. His backers were somewhat worried by the fact that in the field of 18, Bangaway and his rubber-tired sulky had been put in the 18th post position for the first heat-which meant outside in the second tier of starters. There is a sharp turn on the triangular track soon after the start, and it seemed possible that Bangaway might lose ground there or get in a tangle. Nevertheless, the mutuel patrons sent him off an 8-to-5 favorite...
Niemöller expects Australians to be less complicated than Europeans. Said he last week: "It will be necessary, I think, to speak to them in simple, sincere, readily understandable terms. All I will try to do is to put before them a picture, in solid, simple lines like a woodcut, of the nature of the extreme tests to which Christianity has been subjected in Germany for so many years. My aim is to get our story across, not just to an intellectual...
...saying what touched off the explosion, but shrewd La Salle Streeters put their finger on one possibility: the opposite postwar policies of Montgomery Ward and U.S. Gypsum. At Ward's, Avery has pulled in his horns and refused to expand, piling up cash for the depression he thinks is coming. At Gypsum, Keady had poured $53,800,000 into expansion and modernization, doubled Gypsum's gross to $148,555,269 since he took over, more than tripled...