Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Polish troops were almost within sight of Emden. At the bottom of the sack, west of Bremen, the British Second Army ran into what Allied airmen had once called "Flak Alley." Now the massive concentration of antiaircraft guns was leveled to sweep the roads. Few gun crews gave up until all their shells were fired...
Banker Vieck regretted that he could not show the cache of gold; somebody had lost the key to the chamber. The Americans obligingly blew out the wall. And there was the gold, each 25-lb. bar wrapped in a sack, each sack tagged: "Reichsbank." There were sacks of gold coin, some of them too heavy for a man to lift. There seemed to be even more gold stacked in the dim-lit, salt-crusted chamber than Vieck had said...
...skilful screen play, are to be thanked for this. In spite of a painfully whimsical addiction to locutions like "by gum," they write several pieces of conversational love ping-pong and one jagged quarrel which make the average piece of would-be-sure-footed screen dialogue look like a sack-race on snowshoes...
...share to cut cleanly through the turf. The event, the origin of which is obscure, gradually came to be celebrated as a British religious festival. By the 17th Century, observance of the day had ended: instead of going to church the ploughmen celebrated by getting drunk on sack...
Joan Fontaine, wistful, heartwarming, Oscar-winning Hollywood tragedienne, gave notice that she was through with "tearjerker" roles (Rebecca, The Constant Nymph), would turn gay, beginning with her new picture, The Affairs of Susan. Said she: "I was the Sad Sack of the screen. . . . From now on . . . no more tears...