Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made a wonderful hazard for cars. A little crowd gathered hopefully to watch the fun; two soldiers on the curb held hands with their girls; some carpenters sat by a small fire and listened while one played a guitar; couples out "footing" (walking) paused and leaned against a nearby wall. TIME Correspondent Donald Newton looked on from his balcony. Everybody laughed as car after car swerved just in time to avoid hitting the sandpile...
...there with fists and rifle butts till they were unconscious, then revived and ordered to clean up their own blood. Prisoners who complained of hunger were gorged with three meals at a time, then dosed with castor oil. Hours of calisthenics, of standing "nose and toes" to a guardhouse wall were routine punishments. Purple Heart veterans were deliberately jabbed in their old wounds. There was even a ghastly, sardonic slogan among Lichfield guards: "Shoot a prisoner and be made a sergeant...
While the peacemakers dickered, China's civil war raged on. Both sides announced important gains. The Nationalists claimed the capture of Chengteh, capital of mountainous, strategic Jehol province. The Communists claimed the capture of the railroad junction of Tatung, near China's Great Wall, after a four weeks' siege...
This year scouts had their eye on Trenton's 185-lb. first baseman, Dick Geidlin, batting an impressive .464. He promptly bounced a triple off the rightfield wall to break a tie, and beat Los Angeles in the fourth game. But Dick was only 16, and by baseball rules the scouts couldn't even talk to him until he was 17 and no longer eligible to play Legion ball. Another whose name may some day shine in big league lights, Jack Carmichael, was a lanky righthander from Los Angeles with a burning fast ball. He fanned twelve...
...life with ex-Ziegfeld Follies beauty Gladys Glad was fodder for the most sentimental Hellinger copy. Married in 1929, they were divorced three years later. In his New York Mirror column Hellinger unabashedly sampled public reaction to the divorce. After imaginary interviews with a Wall Street clerk, a taxi driver, a socialite, etc., his final paragraph was the "Reaction of the Columnist, deep down in his heart: 'It's going to be awfully tough without you, baby. Awfully, awfully tough...