Word: strung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese columns rumbled from their village bases, snaked westward across the knee-high wheat of Honan. Overhead, their aircraft roared on their way to bomb Chinese towns strung out along the Hwang Ho, the River of Sorrow...
...Pioneer. A 24-year-old Dalmatian sailor commanded the Partisans' only warship, the fishing smack Pioneer, whose eight men were armed with four rifles. The Dalmatian told of sighting an Italian coastal convoy one day-15 vessels, strung-out over 15 miles, with a minesweeper at each end of the column. The Pioneer attacked in the middle. The captain of the attacked boat, seeing rifles, surrendered. A Partisan went aboard, ordered the prize to head for a small section of the coast which was held by Partisans. The Pioneer went after the next vessel, applied the same treatment...
...Heirs. No one has ever disputed Joe Day's claim that he sold "at least a third of the Bronx" and almost as big a slice of Queens, Brooklyn and Upper Manhattan. Last week one eloquent obituary estimated that if all his sales were strung end to end they would "make a strip 100 ft. wide from the Atlantic to the Pacific." He was also a fanatically successful booster of New York and of the U.S., was famed for his war-bond sales and social services. Stuck in London when War I broke...
...bodies were strung like rags on the barbed wire around the American beachhead on Bougainville. In the torn jungle beyond, they lay like rotten fruit on the musty ground. While the attack was on-six futile assaults-the Japs had even sent their walking wounded back into action, to charge again. The Americans had mowed them down. At week's end the Japs were withdrawing, possibly to reorganize. In the month since the assault began they had lost 3,508 counted dead-20 for every American killed-and many more wiped , out in the jungle by artillery...
...Footballing" and Fair Trade. When Chuck Luckman went to Pepsodent, it was suffering from too much sales appeal: large merchants were "footballing" it, i.e., selling it below cost as a "loss leader," while independent druggists, the backbone of the business, fumed. Brooklyn drug stores strung up banners screaming "We do not carry Pepsodent products"; in California there was a statewide boycott. But at that time any company attempting to set price minimums was in danger of violating the Sherman...