Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mean regionalist himself, chesty, 33-year-old Reader Derleth, who writes 500,000 words a year, has only 40-odd volumes to go before completing his Sac Prairie Saga in progress...
...southwestern rim of the defense perimeter. Nazi tanks accomplished a small breakthrough. To the desert's awful heat German shock troops added that of flamethrowers, but the answering heat of British artillery exploded the flame-throwing apparatus, stopped the tanks, and squeezed the breakthrough into a small sac. The difference between the futile Italian and the furious British defense of Tobruch was not just a matter of command of the sea. The Italians used fixed artillery, which could fire outwards only, so that after a breakthrough the whole ring of emplacements was useless; the British, with movable guns, stayed...
...gallstones. If a patient suffers recurring attacks of colic-sharp pains in the right ribs and under the right shoulder blade-she had best have her gall bladder removed. There is no method of dissolving gallstones, no medical treatment to cure colic, no diet which will heal a scarred sac. Once her gall bladder is removed, a woman can get on very well, provided she follows a bland diet...
Meanwhile, in Florida two 19-year-old kids, Earl Dew and Walter Taylor, were giving railbirds something more exciting to think about. Jockey Dew, a shy, baby-faced farm boy from Sac City, Iowa, had burned up Western tracks all year. Jockey Taylor, a skinny, swaggering hustler from Houston had booted home winner after winner on Eastern tracks. By last fortnight, Peewee Dew tallied 280 winners since Jan. 1; Peewee Taylor...
...farmers and their families listened to songs by Indian children from the Sac and Fox reservations, with a slow, critical eye looked over farm implements on display at the Keppy farm, grinned at a map of Iowa made of over a million corn kernels. But what they really liked best were Irving Bauman's 46.71 bushels of husked corn. Plowman Timbers' neat turns and straight rows...