PRO TEAMS' MASCOTS
Stuff the Magic Dragon:
This NBA city
Orlando
This book part is a synonym for backbone
spine
Confederate general Thomas Jackson gained this nickname at the first Battle of Bull Run in 1861
Stonewall
Singer Faith or actor Jonah; what the...?
Hill
Designed in 1940 in just 75 days, the prototype Jeep was delivered to the U.S. Army on this appropriate November day
November 11th
Iceburgh:
An NHL bird
the Pittsburgh Penguins
It can be an angry look or a harsh light
a glare
Abner Doubleday, purported inventor of baseball, ordered the firing of the first defensive shots of the war at this location
Fort Sumter
Oh, this! Rising 770 feet on the Feather River, Oroville is the highest one in the United States
dam
Riding in a Jeep on Leyte Island in November 1944, shortly after his return to the Philippines
MacArthur
The horse-like Miles:
In the NFL's AFC West
the Broncos
This synonym for "oceanic" can also be a member of the armed forces
marine
Arthur MacArthur from Milwaukee won the Medal of Honor for a charge at Missionary Ridge shouting this, now a fight song title
On, Wisconsin!
This non-naughty 5-letter "B" word means to bungle a task
to botch
In 1944 "Old Faithful", the first Marine Corps Jeep on Guadalcanal, got one of these medals for its bullet wounds
a Purple Heart
Sourdough Sam:
An NFL miner
the 49ers
A stain on one's character can be this, also beginning with "st"
a stigma
In 1863 Congress passed the first act implementing this in the U.S., leading to riots in New York City & elsewhere
conscription (the draft)
1-word energy industry technique that's the subject of the film "Gasland"
fracking
After World War II, Jeeps were sold to farmers as "The All-Around Farm Work" this; one Jeep could do the work of 2
horse
Barrelman:
A Midwestern MLB mascot
the (Milwaukee) Brewers
This 6-letter synonym for "whirlpool" comes from Latin for "whirlpool"
a vortex
Resulting in almost 24,000 casualties, this 1862 battle in Tennessee has a name from Hebrew that is often translated as "peaceful one"
Shiloh
That's a load of this, a short "riding" whip
crop
Jeeps by the thousands came off the assembly line of this original maker, giving the Axis the...
Willys