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Word: satchell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lock, Stock & Barrel. In Waterville, Me., Farmer Ray Gilbert & wife loaded a satchel, a hatbox, a few other small pieces, an iron bed, an automobile, a dog, nine head of cattle and themselves into a boxcar, and headed for California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 22, 1945 | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...date on Fala. He was about to move to her Manhattan apartment, where she feared he might feel a little cramped at first. Traveling was a problem; he was used to romping about the President's private car, would now have to travel in a dog satchel. The Manhattan salesman who sold her the satchel had some advice: Fala would not be so alarmed if she backed him into it. "I really think it would be simpler if I sat with him in the baggage car," wrote Mrs. Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Travels | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Craft went along the crest, hurling grenades into foxholes and trenches. Japs popped up to fire at him; Craft pitched a hand grenade first. Japs tried to charge him with bayonets and spears. Craft shot them with his M-t rifle. He hurled a satchel charge into a cave. lt had a defective fuse and failed to explode. Craft walked up, retrieved the charge, fixed the fuse and hurled it in again. That time it sealed the cave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Hero of Hen Hill | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...whole thing took about 15 minutes. In that time Craft fired four clips from his Mi, hurled 48 grenades and the satchel charge. He paused only once-to pick up a Japanese officer's sword because he knew "those guys of the 96th would have had the field stripped clear of souvenirs by the time I got back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Hero of Hen Hill | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

Early in the week, Baltimore began to sweat and shake with its annual seven-day fever over a horse race. Despite a change in jockeys and a jinx, the horse causing the highest rise in temperatures was Hoop Jr., a satchel-headed bay that won an easy six-length triumph at Louisville. There was no standout challenger until midweek, when Pavot turned in a sensational 1:59⅓workout (for a mile and three-sixteenths). By Saturday, 30,000 fans who shoved into Pimlico for the Preakness had just about forgotten that there were seven other entries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Preakness | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

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