Word: lines
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...There were a few kids in our town who were known to be members of Democratic families. We were always allowed to march too, but they put us at the end of the line, so as not to contaminate the rest of them. Gradually we realized that we were always put at the end of the line and we got sort of sore about...
...grew up to be a college professor, a famous economist, and a combat veteran himself. But he never got over being sort of sore at injustice, wherever he found it. He was from the beginning a rebel, a reformer, a crusader for the boys at the end of the line. The people of Chicago made him an alderman; in 1948 the voters of Illinois sent him to the U.S. Senate...
...another as a volunteer rifleman in an infantry platoon, assaulting the Naha-Shuri line on Okinawa. The platoon was advancing into heavy machine-gun fire and sniper fire when one burst stitched down his left arm from elbow to wrist and severed the main nerve. One month later he was admitted to the naval hospital at Bethesda, Md. for a 13-month stay...
Ranger Coach Lynn Patrick had found a way to jam Detroit's high-velocity forward line of Lindsay, Gordon Howe and Abel by borrowing from platoon football. He simply used his own second line as a defensive unit whose chief function was not to score but to keep the Wings from scoring. When Detroit's main-line trio of Lindsay, Howe and Abel skated onto the ice, so did Patrick's nuisance line. When Lindsay & Co. were called off the ice to rest between sallies, so were their Ranger shadows. Then Coach Patrick inserted the line that...
...morning last week, Reporter Malcolm Johnson was awakened by the jangle of the telephone. The boss was on the line. Edmond Bartnett, city editor of the New York Sun, wanted Reporter Johnson to hustle right down to the office, two hours earlier than usual. "Mr. Speed has an assignment for you," said Bartnett mysteriously. "It's a tough...