Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hawaii, the iron-fisted embargo that Harry Bridges' C.I.O. longshoremen had clamped around Honolulu's reef-ringed harbor last May (TIME, July 4) was beginning to rust through in several places. The trickle of cargo that had begun when the territorial government seized the docks seven weeks ago was growing to a stream. Freighters arrived and unloaded autos, Christmas tinsel, cattle feed, canned soup and nylons, left the same day with their holds crammed with bagged raw sugar and cases of pineapple. But when the pineapple-laden freighters hit the U.S. West Coast, their "hot" cargoes found...
...glare of floodlights, a big four-motored C-54 dropped down onto Berlin's Tempelhof field, turned off the runway and swung around in the wake of the yellow jeep with the big red-lighted sign: "Follow me." At the unloading stand, its crew climbed down and workmen began unloading its cargo of coal. The Berlin airlift had ended...
...fifth time in 41 years, Oklahoma's wets did their doggondest to repeal the state prohibition law. Everyone would be far better off, they argued, if whisky were sold legally-and taxed-instead of just sloshing around the state as contraband, making cops greedy and bootleggers rich. This appeal to sweet reason was dramatized by the fact that the repeal group's leader, Tulsa Attorney Albert G. Kulp (rhymes with gulp), was a bone-dry teetotaler himself...
...depths of winter, because it is hard to get out the workingman's full vote in cold weather. The Labor Party machinery was not tuned up for an election before spring. The shrewdest observers, sure that Attlee and Morrison did not want a fall election, predicted a date around May i. But Nye Bevan was reported to be insisting on a "snap" autumn election. If that was really what he wanted, he might get it, for in the drab ranks of Labor statesmen he was the nearest thing to a popular hero...
...confusing second event, a hapless and inexperienced freshman squad galloped around the wrong trails, finally coming up with 41 points to Tufts' 17. The mixup on the trails occurred when flag markers for the varsity course were followed by more than half of the Crimson and Tufts freshmen. Although the distance was then too long for a true freshman course, comparative times determined the scoring...