Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public responded to the shortages with 1) extreme patience; 2) a dogged determination to buy something-for a good deal more money than usual-come hell or no help in the nation's overcrowded stores. In Manhattan, swank Saks Fifth Avenue stayed open three Thursday nights in a row, "practically by request," and reported that customers packing breathlessly into their usually roomy elevators had been heard to exclaim: "Gee, this is just like Macy's." But Macy's, which seemed to contain most of Greater New York's population, calmly took on 11,000 extra employes...
...baseball style.* They are quick, hard, fast and accurate. Most go for only five to 15 yards. Against the Giants. Slingin' Sammy's 16 bull's-eyes were worth only 199 yards. But they set up the first two touchdowns, and four Baugh bullets in a row covered 46 yards for the final score...
...Again, He's Irish-Well they might. Before the Reuters row had even begun to subside, U.S. newspapers were scooped again...
Once Beebe came upon a noted gastronome glaring with horror at a row of orchids on his table. "Throw wide the windows!" cried the gourmet. "Air the rooms! Is the bouquet of my wines to have to conflict with these stinking flowers...
...first day of football practice at Columbia in 1938, photographers hauled out an old archery target. To get stunt pictures, they placed Quarterback Sid Luckman 25 yd. away and told him to toss passes. Six times in a row he hit the dead center of the four-inch bull's-eye. In seven years of college and pro football he proved that he was just as accurate under gridiron fire...