Word: zigzags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best new children's game is Ranger Commandos, a parchesi-type in which little barges set out across open water, zigzag to landings, and move little wooden commando pieces inland to destroy such objectives as a tank factory, railroad yards, munitions plant, etc. Players return posthaste, unless captured, whenever any player lands on a spot marked with an enemy sentry. First one back with the most points of destruction wins...
...threadbare blanket with a hole cut in the middle served him as a poncho. The Red Army men, dressed in the standard winter sheepskin shubas (coats), fleece-lined caps and warm valenki (knee-high felt boots), seized the shivering Fritz as he stood sentry duty over a zigzag trench full of freezing Germans. All he could mumble was "holodno" (cold...
...Scorching. The National Safety Council, usually concerned with automobile safety (auto deaths recently dropped 11%), issued safety instructions to the million-plus new bicycle riders. Points: obey traffic laws; ride single file on right with traffic; don't zigzag; don't stunt; don't hitch rides on other vehicles; don't carry passengers on the handle bars; don't race cars; use the bell; remember arm signals; carry packages in a basket...
High above him a bomber circled, while an observer took movies of one of the great naval battles of World War II. He caught the zigzag wakes of six warships, dodging a shower of bombs, the telltale circulars of two stricken aircraft carriers steaming out of control, the streaking course of bellowing dive-bombers blasting at stricken ships...
Last week thousands of U.S. ski fans crammed the sidelines at Lake Placid's Rim Rock run. Like most downhill meets, the races were divided into two sections: the straight-down (popularly called the downhill) and the slalom,* a zigzag course defined by pairs of flags which skiers must thread...