Word: trumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wangled Roy Cullenbine from Cleveland, laid it on the line in a single pep talk and got him squared away to the business of banging 17 homers (third highest in the league) and batting in 89 runs (second highest). And O'Neill had long since named his trump card by plucking veteran Catcher Paul Richards from the minors to handle Pitchers Newhouser and Trout (40 victories this year, a record 56 last year...
...Plauen grocer named August Wilhelm Bartholdy, whose face was his misfortune: he looked like the Führer. Grocer Bartholdy, said F.G.P.S., had been carefully coached and combed, then sent to Berlin "to die on the barri cades. ... He will act as Hitler's trump card, creating a hero legend around the Führer 's death, while Hitler himself goes underground." To fasten the hoax on posterity, Reichsbildberichterstatter (Photo graphic Reporter for the Reich) Heinrich Hoffmann would "be on hand to film Hitler's last moment on the battlefield."* -Whose 82nd birthday was celebrated this week...
...Trump. Before Molotov arrived in Washington, Moscow played a trump. Into Moscow flew President Boleslaw Bierut, Premier Osubka-Morawski, Deputy Premier Wladyslaw Homolka and Defense Minister General Michal Rola-Zymierski-Warsaw Poles all. Two days later, Stalin himself signed a 20-year mutual assistance treaty and proclaimed "a radical turning point in the relations between the Soviet Union and Poland . . . a solid foundation for replacing the old unfriendly relations with ties of alliance and friendship...
Watching her Okinawa outpost crumble before U.S. attack, a desperate Japan played small cards for high stakes last week-and lost. In two disastrous days 417 Jap planes went spinning into the sea. In 30 fateful minutes of the second afternoon, two cruisers, three destroyers and her last naval trump, the 45,000-ton battleship Yamato, were battered to the bottom...
...Play showed three main differences from bridge: 1) South, claiming the contract at 500, declared spades trump (in Check, the trump is not announced until the contract is claimed); 2) South, leading the Spade ace won East's singleton Spade ace (in Check, the first ace wins the second; the first king, the second king, etc.), 3) honor cards taken in tricks counted in point score (in Check, aces and tens count ten, kings and queens, 5.; jacks, no count...