Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week his Ukraine strategy became apparent. It was his aim to encircle the Russian defenders and contain them in the great geographical sack defined by the Dniester and Dnieper Rivers and the Black Sea; there to cut them up. Wrote authoritative Dienstaus Deutschland of this ambitious undertaking: "The size of the encircled area or the time required to liquidate it is not important. What counts is that the enemy is grabbed; he can't retreat and he is destroyed...
...present because "things are moving too fast," last week jumped smack into midstream of present happenings. He bought and became editor of his local paper, the Southern Pines, N.C. Pilot ("a guaranteed circulation of 1,200 and I count a man a subscriber even if he pays with a sack of potatoes...
...this expansion, bouquets go to 31-year-old millionaire-socialite Richard Chichester du Pont, onetime champion glider pilot. Talked about since a piano-wired Bleriot monoplane officially hauled the first sack of mail in 1911, rural air mail was just talk until handsome young Du Pont got the bright idea that overcame the two big obstacles to small-town air mail: expense of landing fields, loss of time and money making stops. Du Font's idea: land only when necessary, otherwise swoop low over clearings at 100 m.p.h., simultaneously drop incoming mail, pick up outgoing letters and packages...
Sandy Macmillan at short, A1 Everts at second, and Brooks Heath, holding down the first sack, together with Butler, make up a green infield which is improving steadily. Macmillan, a left-handed batter, who hits long and hard when he connects, is at present holding the lead-off post in the batting order. Al Everts is batting for .381, and is the most improved member of the team. His tennis experience has given him a good eye for the ball. Heath played in the outfield at school, but handles his first-base job fairly well, although he lacks vital game...
...gravely handed Mrs. Mitchell a phial of poison, showed her how to sew it in the collar of her tunic so that she could suck it out, even though her hands were manacled. He told her to practice killing with a knife, by plunging and twisting it in a sack of flour. These amenities attended to, Leader Pechanatz gave Mrs. Mitchell a job as dispatch rider on his general staff. From a list of names before him, he crossed hers off. Said he: "We just cross the name off, my girl, because we consider you dead when you become...