Word: bootlegging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi officers, carefully screened P.W.s and recruited youths. Then he set them up in Bereitschaften under direct control of the Russians. The ready squads, of 250 men each, are armed with rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and light artillery. In equipment they have a better start than did the bootleg German army of the '20s, which was also founded on a cadre of the best officer material...
...both the right half and the fullback, continues veering back and to the left and finally whirls-around to throw a pass. The last two plays everybody should remember. Quarterback Clayton faked again to both backs, clapped the ball on his hip and galloped around end on a bootleg play, provided the defensive halfbacks didn't rush...
...other side of the scrimmage line, Dartmouth exhibited a steady though short-gaining ground offense, and a very successful passing attack. Whenever a crucial play came up, quarterback Clayton usually relied on the passing game. Three times he pulled the optional bootleg pass and run. When the halfbacks didn't come up, he ran; when they did, he passed to the unprotected receivers they had abandoned. The really tragic part of it all was that on each occasion either all the defending backs, or none of them, came up to deal with Mr. Clayton...
Bouquet. In Walhalla, S.C., Etta Jackson won a suspended sentence after explaining to the court that the twelve half-gallon jugs of bootleg whisky dug up in her garden were placed there only to make the flowers grow better...
...which he returned was celebrating the Jazz Age; and drinking bootleg gin. Chambers' brother Richard, to whom he was deeply attached, committed suicide. He visited Richard's grave one winter day and found it covered with ice. He wrote: "The cold earth holds him round, a sheet of ice is over his face. My brother has no more the cold rain to face...