Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mound for the Funsters, while shortstop Bill Lucke led the hitters with three singles in four tries. Bernie McMahon pitched for the Gold Coasters, but third baseman Charlie Morin was their star of the day, adding a professional touch with his slides into the keystone sack...
...young woman who pleaded to be left one sack of potatoes after all the food in her house had been requisitioned, a German officer said politely: "I am sorry, but you must realize there are at present twice as many Greeks as we need here. Half must die. The rich shall become poor and the poor shall die. That is our policy, and I am unable to make an exception in your case...
Dressed in a seamy old coat and patched cotton-sack apron. Patriarch Carver puttered about his memorial museum at Tuskegee last week, unpacking, dusting and hanging his life work as an artist. One of his paintings, a larger-than-life-size picture of a yucca plant, was half a century old, got honorable mention at Chicago's 1893 World's Fair. Of it, he crowed delightedly: "I painted that from my memories of the Western plains. My school-teacher tried to copy it. She failed. She forbade the other pupils to copy it, because she couldn...
...Reds were in a bag, the Germans claimed. They would have to stand and fight, or tumble, Dunkirk-wise, into the Black Sea. According to Moscow, the Germans spoke too soon. The greater part of the Red Army of the Ukraine had made an orderly retreat, were outside the sack, were crossing the Dnieper to take up new positions...
These and other details of the New Order's Plünderpraxis (sack technique) were corroborated last week in Manhattan by Constantine George Cotzias, 49, Minister-Governor (Mayor) of Athens until the city fell last April. If Mayor Cotzias were in U.S. politics he would inevitably be known as Big Con, for he is 6 ft. 4 in. tall and when he steps on the scales they whimper out 286 lb. He has blazing brown eyes and a magnificent head. With him are his wife, who headed the hospitals of Athens during the gallant six-month struggle, and three...