Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desperate affair of survival. About 1,400 of 3,000 inmates of Camp 5, for example, were dying from disease, malnutrition and maltreatment, and those who heeded progressives got favor and food from the Reds. Gallagher helped run the "Red Star" study group on Communism; he lectured P.W.s on "Wall Streeters and capitalistic imperialists" and wrote leaflets urging U.S. troops in the line to surrender. Gallagher, said witnesses, advised one of the Chinese officers to shoot Sergeant Pate and the reactionaries. One of the witnesses remarked that Gallagher once sold him a plate of beans and corn...
...wintry day when the temperature was 30° below zero. Sergeant Pate and five or six of his friends heard blows, body blows they thought, coming from one of the huts. "I saw Gallagher lifting a man off the floor roughly," said Pate. "He carried him to the wall near the corner. As far as I could see, he hung him in some way to a peg in the wall. His feet were about six inches off the floor. Then Gallagher stepped back and laughed. He reached up and snapped the limp head back and said. 'Dammit, that...
...Week. From Biarritz on the Atlantic coast to Orthez and Oloron-Sainta-Marie in the heart of the Pyrenees, Basques were playing their national game. Shepherds and schoolboys, fishermen and priests, customs inspectors and smugglers ran each other ragged as they whipped a goatskin-covered ball against any convenient wall and went through the swift gyrations of pelota, that rugged ancestor of jai alai, handball and most other court games...
Above the Bar. On regulation pelota courts, the fronton wall is 16 meters wide and ten meters high. The flat concrete floor is 70 meters long. After the pelota, a rubber-cored ball, is smacked against the wall, an opposition player must catch it and fire it back before it has bounced more than once. Points are lost by missing the ball, tossing it against the wall below an iron bar set one yard above the ground, or sending it sailing beyond the bounds of the concrete floor...
...grand chistera. Next to the husky Spaniards in their rose-colored shirts, Urruty and his teammates looked a little too frail for so tough a game, but the very first serve dispelled any Basque doubts. Urruty bounced the pelota, caught it in his chistera and slung it against the wall with whiplash speed. There was a sharp, dry crack, and the ball had bounced back 60 yards. The Spaniards were already on the defensive...