Word: stack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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State Secretary Jimmy Byrnes had played for high stakes in London, with something less than average success. Last week, for future play in the European game, Harry Truman gave him a new stack of chips: control of surplus property disposal abroad...
...crew made up chiefly of kids from The Bronx, Brooklyn and South Boston, and Idaho-born Dixie Kiefer knew how to handle them. The Ti was ragged at first-she would sometimes zig when she was supposed to zag. Her stack often poured smoke. But she settled down. Soon she was breaking records for launching and recovering planes. The raw kids became sensationally good...
...report on the "Light except that he was seen dapperly weighing his overseas cap on liberty. He was exhibit his latest purchase from the B State Outfitting Co. Soon--watch for the Latest to join Kewpie in the "Live-on-as Like It Club" for next semester are E Stack and Long John Smith...
Reichsmarshal Hermann G&246ring surrendered in state. The 36th Infantry Division's assistant commander, Brigadier General Robert Stack, met him by appointment on a country road in Bavaria, saluted smartly, and escorted him to division headquarters. Major General John E. Dahlquist, who is proud of his German, dismissed an interpreter, led the Reichsmarshal to a command trailer, and conversed with him in dignified privacy. Afterward the biggest Nazi scoundrel so far bagged by the Allies lunched on chicken, changed into a fresh uniform with twelve medals, and put up for the night at a nearby castle with Frau...
Some of the songs are new--and to the everlasting credit of Messrs. Walker and Warnick, they stack up pretty well against the efforts of their better-established competitors. The very best number is a new one, sung to utter perfection by Robinson, "Growing Pains"; and the authors also hit the top with a mock-serious ditty called "Love or Reason...