Word: satchel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...determined U.S. patrols were ranging north of strongly held defenses, harassing the enemy's efforts to continue his offensive. One bold U.S. armored column-far north of the main lines-was ambushed by angry Chinese who swarmed all over it, trying to destroy the tanks with pole and satchel charges. The U.S. tanks fired on one another with machine-gun bullets, which did not penetrate the armor but killed the Chinese on top. Some of the Reds were blown to bits by their own explosives. When the tanks finally withdrew, they were covered with blood...
...scheduled press conference was to begin, Johnston handed the wage order to Cyrus Ching, who hardly had time to skim through it before he lumbered into President Truman's press-conference room in the old State Department building. There he was joined by Mike DiSalle and his satchel. But before either had a chance to begin, a press officer let the big cat out of the bag: "Mr. DiSalle and Mr. Ching are here to discuss a wage & price order issued today, freezing prices & wages as of yesterday...
...sober crowd of faithful followers made its way to Medicine Lodge, Kans. (pop. 2,290), to dedicate a brick and frame house as a W.C.T.U. memorial. It was the old home of Carry Nation, and furnished with her original bar-smashing hatchet, the satchel in which she carried bricks to bash in saloon mirrors and glasses, her old rocking chair and desk, and a life-sized portrait of the woman who also once urged Britons to give up their intemperate habit of drinking...
...government publicly renounces the manufacture of atomic bombs within seven days, he will set one off in the heart of midday London. The discovery that Professor Willingdon (Barry Jones) is indeed missing from his government laboratory- along with a potent U.K. 12 that could fit into his small satchel-touches off a major crisis in London and a major moviemaking feat by Britain's young (37) producing-directing twins, Roy and John (The Guinea Pig) Boulting...
...policemen searched the apartment, gathered up a bundle of papers. Don Bernardo crammed a change of underwear and a blanket into a shabby satchel. To his distressed family (a wife and six children at home; four other children elsewhere), the old man said: "Don't worry about me. I will be back soon. I have committed no crimes." Then he was led off to jail...