Word: ganges
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Naturally, there were no funds to purchase stars from other teams, so Rickey dreamed up the farm system, i.e., buying minor-league clubs and developing young players on them. At first the other big-league teams hooted at "Rickey's chain gang," but by 1926 it began to pay off spectacularly. That year the Cards won not only the pennant but the World Series...
Some of the Nazis were pathologically brutal. Quite a few were kindly, intelligent or both. Swarms took snapshots of the girls. One gang tried clumsily to assault them. All were sure that England would go under within a month. A surprising number spoke fluent English. One & all were amazed to find women in military service...
...hostile Senate and a suspicious House gang up on the two agencies, the direct and indirect losses cannot be quickly or easily recouped. It is difficult to resist the urge to prune a group whose members do not vote, but it may be wise to remember that NYA and CCC beneficiaries will not be minors forever...
...people of this nation are following the leadership (such as is provided for them) in the crisis as slavishly as any medieval chain gang. Thank your stars if your castigation doesn't produce the kind of sullen rancor which could one day destroy you. What this nation needs right now in these tax-ridden days is a pat on the back-not a slap on the mouth with the back of an ungrateful, irresponsible, alphabetical hand...
Short, crop-haired, 42-year-old Martin Bormann was a schoolboy bully in Halberstadt near the Harz Mountains. After World War I he studied agriculture in Mecklenburg, where he joined a murderous anti-Republican gang whose pastime was beating workmen as they left their beer halls. This connection led him into the German Workers Party, predecessor of the Nazis...