Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hates to lose), a relaxed fisherman and a crack shot with a rifle. He took up gardening during World War II when gas rationing cut off his golf. His wife suggested that victory gardening was patriotic, and Welch agreed to try it if she would make a hard bargain with him: he would garden (which he detests) if she would drink beer (which she detests) with him. So the Welches spent their weekends with rake and hoe, diligently working in the hot sun, with time out for beer in the shade, each suffering alternately...
...Ambassador-Extraordinary Jim Calan, an oil tycoon who has come to London to drive a hard bargain with British diplomats. Shrewd, tough, likable, religious, Jim would have married Katie O'Higgins had she not refused to become a mere...
...Candoo Metals & Oils Ltd." Their persuasive salesmen, charged the grand jury, called likely prospects with phony reports of new oil and uranium strikes. A favorite trick was to quote a stock at one price, then lei a sucker buy it for less, pretending he was getting a tremendous bargain when actually the stock was worthless. One promoter made a sale by gasping over the phone that he had "just run in from the field" where a new well was brought...
...Yankees beefed up their roster for the sixth time in six years with a National League veteran. They picked up the St. Louis Cardinals' hustling, hard-hitting (lifetime average: .305) Outfielder Enos ("Country") Slaughter for a bargain price: a rookie pitcher and the promise of three minor leaguers. Durable Enos, 37, a remnant of the rowdy "Gashouse" era, roamed the outfield for the Cards for 13 seasons, played in 143 games last year, helped whip the Yanks the last time they lost a World Series...
...simply to do the same job all over again in a Times Square accent. His hero is "Louie Bloom Jerce, the inky darkling," i.e., a Joycean "jerk" whose attachment to writing has made him black as ink and a bit of an Irish "darlin"' into the bargain. This opus is Inky's "histree" - which means, of course, both "his tree" and personal "history." Inky admits that, unlike Jerce, he is not much of a scholar - "the penalty for not sticking to my last from the first." He advises people to "get a card in the public liebury...