Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dave Beck, the Teamster wagon has been a perfect vehicle for a ride to power. At its first convention in 1903, with Niagara Falls roaring in the background, the 50,000-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters selected as its first president a 295-lb. cutthroat named Cornelius Shea, who eventually was packed off to Sing Sing for stabbing his mistress 27 times (Shea bungled the job -the girl lived). Next, in 1907, came Irish-born Dan Tobin, who was to hold office for 45 astonishing years. Fond of boasting that he ran the union with only two staffers, Tobin came...
...scowling, smirking, always true to life, yet slightly absurd-have stayed in the minds of millions. Apart from talent, all great cartoonists need a point of attack from which to enfilade their natural and necessary enemy-the great. Low's point of attack was his own New Zealand background. His Scottish-born father was one of those lovable Victorian cranks-a promoter of religions and patent medicines, and a man who fostered domestic harmony by encouraging intellectual debate. In the raucous, blasphemous, antitraditional political life of New Zealand and Australia, Low found his style, starting at eleven...
Into Research. After 1938, when he won a Regular Army commission as a second lieutenant, Schriever headed like a self-guided missile into the heart of the growing field of aviation research and development. On the basis of his flying experience and his engineering background, he got a coveted job as test pilot at Ohio's Wright Field; there he flew anything that came along, frequently five or six new and unproven planes a day, all the way up to the B-17 which was then in modest production. He moved on to Wright Field's Air Corps...
...books to keep booming through 1961. Six days later, the 2,750,000 members of Britain's "engineering" unions began a "snowball strike," or progressive walkout, which by April 6 was scheduled to close down 4,300 factories producing everything from textile looms to bombers. In the background, muttering ominously, were the 370,000 generally low-paid employees of the nationalized railways...
...your age; he's demanding, possessive, of another race. Would you marry him?" Eartha: "That's a very silly question. Of course I would if I was inclined to be in love with him. But one or the other of us would have to go into the background." Unabashed, Tex swung again: "Would you marry a paleface?" Victim Kitt, still taken aback, said: "Yes, if I loved...