Word: sackfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart had a similar bone to pick with the Pentagon. The Army had asked Cartoonist George Baker to donate the use of his baggy, wistful comic-strip child, Sad Sack, to help the recruiting drive. Sad Sack first appeared in Yank, the wartime weekly, became so popular that he now runs in some 90 U.S. papers. With Cartoonist Baker's permission, the Army got out a comic book showing Sad Sack up against the pitfalls and pratfalls of civilian life. When he draws his first paycheck, he finds that after all the taxes...
...World becomes a pell-mell yarn. Time & again, Revolutionist Bolivar's army was reduced to a handful of men. With despairing patience he wrote articles and letters urging military discipline, an end to jealousy and anarchy among the patriot leaders. "Our army," he wrote, "is a sack with a hole at the bottom"-words that might have come from Valley Forge. Through sheer necessity, he became a brilliant guerrilla campaigner, making up in mobility and surprise what he lacked in numbers. Before he was through, he and his followers had routed the Spaniards from Panama to Peru, laid...
...American Activities Committee has used a short, ugly name for the federation: tool of the Communist Party. Last week, under the severest accumulated criticism in federation history, 56 of the 4,000 members turned up for the annual meeting in Evanston, Ill. Main question: Should they save, or sack, the Rev. Jack R. McMichael, 34, their executive secretary since...
...Sept. 23, 1949, the daily press was already scooped: Josten had turned out the same news in his bulletin 30 hours before. Again, while Prague's Communist Foreign Minister Vladimir Clementis was safe at the United Nations, Josten's paper warned him of a Red plot to sack him; Clementis disregarded it, returned to Prague, and, three months later, was sacked, and finally disappeared completely...
...stopt at the George for a bottle of sack...