Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...double trucks are impressive. But if all national advertising copy had been as dull, boring and obtuse as in your series, the great American mass production machine would have ground to a halt long...
Gunfight. When the party reached the tiny, treeless Plaza San Martin, dominated by an equestrian statue of the Argentine hero, two military policemen rounded the corner. A shot was fired. More soldiers raced up, more bullets flew. Echandia and some of his followers dropped to the ground; others scrambled behind the statue. After five minutes, an army officer pulled up in a car and stopped the shooting...
Last week at Muroc Dry Lake, Calif., the Navy staged a press demonstration of the Skyrocket which was a face-reddening flop. The plane never got off the ground. But many earlier tests have been successful. The Skyrocket's top speed, not announced, is probably around 1,000 m.p.h...
...hand grenades and mortar shells brought home by World War II veterans are not the only souvenirs which sometimes blow up later. Sergeant Wilson Posie Noles, an Air Force ground crewman from 1942 to 1945, found that microscopic, disease-causing organisms, unknowingly picked up, can behave the same...
...Houston, air-minded Rice switched to a ground game and surprised Baylor, 21-7, to win the Southwestern Conference championship and an invitation...