Word: straggler
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...Help for Stragglers. The whole idea of "extending prosperity" to the farm, i.e., taking quick, corrective action to get all the good graph lines rising together-epitomizes Government's new role in the expanding economy. Harry Truman's Agriculture Department rushed to defend the farmer, was willing to commit him to eternal Government control in protecting farm income. Eisenhower, as the report shows it, sees the farmer as a blameless straggler in the general march to prosperity. Ike wants to get him back in line as soon as possible so that the farmer can march up the graph...
Behind one cluster of huts in a small gulch, the paratroopers had collected a bag of approximately 130 North Korean soldiers and a lone Chinese straggler. The P.W.s gaped at the drop zone, now bristling with the tanks, soldiers and guns of Task Force Growdon. Along the ridges and on the paddy fields within the paratroopers' perimeter lay some 300 dead North Korean Reds...
They came by the thousands-men, women & children. As they took in the sights-105 brand-new two-bedroom houses for sale-they munched candy and sandwiches. When the last straggler left, twelve hours later, every last house had been sold. It was Los Angeles' Liberty Building Co.'s third and most spectacular one-day sale...
...audacious American fighter-[Lieut. Edward] O'Hare, I learned later-dart recklessly into a torrential hail of flak . . . clip off a straggler, and then in leapfrog fashion shoot down at least two others. It couldn't have taken more than a minute or two. That was the last straw for the Japs...
Youngster officer-pilots of the new Philippine Air Force sailed into the Jap with a daring and skill that popped the eyes of their opposite numbers from the U.S. One army flight of three jumped 20 Jap planes, knocked out three, chased the rest, picked up a straggler on the way home and sent him down in flames. A bombing flight lumbered serenely through heavy ack-ack fire to unload on warships, then kicked off altitude and strafed a landing party on the beach...