Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Candidate Willkie hadn't been hit yet; rotten-eggers are notoriously inaccurate. But people were really trying: eggs, a cantaloupe, a rock, a stick had been pitched at him. In Homestead, Pa., police confiscated an unknown quantity of tomatoes and apple cores from some twelve-year-old politicians; in Philadelphia, one Israel Kirby, 65-who happens to have been born in Rushville, Ind.-was arrested with a dozen eggs at a Shibe Park Willkie speech; had to prove they were eating, not throwing eggs...
...Serrano Suner, brother-in-law of Generalissimo Franco, Spain would continue nonbelligerent. Some 40,000 German "tourists" had filtered into Spain. Spanish popular agitation for the return of Gibraltar had been too well synchronized with Axis moves to be altogether spontaneous. It seemed extremely likely that the "Rock" was in for a winter of terrible poundings by the Luftwaffe and by artillery from Algeciras across the Straits. And if Gibraltar fell, it was further likely that Axis troops would go on to Morocco and Algeria...
...post and railhead of their vital line curling back 165 miles along the coast of Africa's eastern horn to Alexandria. Middle East Commander Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell was handicapped by having far fewer troops than Graziani. Even so, they were not spear-hurling Ethiopians nor rock-rolling Albanians but a hotchpotch of crack British units, Punjabis and South African volunteers, tough New Zealanders and wild Australians. Against them Graziani appeared to be committed to a frontal assault, while exposing his lengthening columns to attack from desert tanks on his right flank, the guns of the British...
When the Cleveland Indians reached Detroit last week for a three-game series with the Tigers, they were met by hundreds of youngsters, swarming through the Union Depot, jeering "Cry Babies-Cry Babies!" At their hotel, the suffering base-bailers were further plagued by the strains of Rock-a-Bye Baby serenading them from the streets below...
...beginning of the summer just past the Red Sox sent Lupien to Little Rock in the Southern League where he was regarded as the outstanding all-around first baseman in the league. He led the league in stolen bases with 26 to his credit and batted for an average...