Word: armes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With this year's number of polio cases (2,700 so far) reported mounting rapidly toward what might well prove to be the highest figures ever, vaccinations were hopelessly behind schedule. There was no chance that the program could catch up unless it got a shot in the arm with massive imports of U.S. vaccine - and these the Ministry of Health flatly refused to consider...
Checks & Zippers. When Claude hesitated, Max Chester harassed him with threats, inquired pointedly about the health of Claude's children, reminded him that it was dangerous for children to play in the street. " 'They can get hit by a car.' It was always with the arm around my shoulder, and 'You have got to pay us off because you are mine and I own you. No matter where you are going to move, you are mine.' I was scared to death." In the end Claude paid Chester about $1,400 by cashing worthless checks...
Peanuts & Promises. Dio, who made a name for himself in his 20s as a strong-arm thug when he and an uncle muscled into the garment trucking industry, worked his way (after a stretch in Sing Sing) up into the labor rackets in a queer way. First he ran a few little dress-manufacturing shops. Then he took over a New York local of the foundering United Auto Workers (A.F.L.). With help from Jimmy Hoffa as well as the union's International Secretary-Treasurer Anthony Doria, Dio surrounded himself with mobsters who had grown tired of robbery, bookmaking...
...Wladyslaw Gomulka, this week continued his buss ride through the satellites, reared back and thrust his deep-pile chops at Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. Then, to prove there was Marxism beneath the mush, he fired off a blast at "imperialist America and its puppets, who are continuing to arm themselves in an attempt to dominate the world." Next target for Ho's communal cuddling: Albania's Enver Hoxha...
...remarks one of them as he takes a bite out of Eva's unwashed arm, "we are two cannibals." Then he croons...