Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manley's People's National Party campaigned vigorously for self-government, shorter hours and better working conditions. Thousands of signatures were obtained for a resolution: "We do now with one heart and voice demand a form of government freely elected by all the people, responsible to us and free to carry out effectively the policies that will make our country a better place...
There was a direct telephone between Coningham's and Doolittle's headquarters. Over it, wisecracking Mary Coningham often yelled to wisecracking Jimmy Doolittle for help, e.g., more bombers for a special operation. When Doolittle needed help from Coningham's light and medium bombers or his shorter-range fighters, he got it too, in a matter of minutes...
...ring promised that not a single enemy bomb would reach the Ruhr. Congratulations on having delivered the first 100,000 tons on Germany to refute him. The next 100,000, if he waits for them, will be even bigger and better bombs, delivered even more accurately and in much shorter time...
...have as much fun as you used to when holes were shorter, golf was simpler, and you didn't live a subterranean existence in sand traps. And now you've got to give it all up because there are no men to rake out your footprints, or run the power mowers, or patch the elaborate tees, or manicure the target greens; and no gasoline for the machines if the men were available. . . . Silly...
...defensive play of Jack Torgan, George Dillon, and Mike Keene was especially worthy of note. Torgan was assigned to high-scoring Guy McGauhey, and although the Bulldog ace made 11 points, most of his buckets were made on tip-ins, shots which the shorter Torgan couldn't touch. Outside the keyhole, McGauhey was from hunger...