Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most noise emanates from a barrel-shaped pupil named Leo. This is not because Leo is an inferior student, but simply because he was once a professional wrestler. When anyone else wishes a hold broken, he simply taps his partner or the mat. But not Leo. He writhes, moans, gushes his teeth, and pounds his head until an instructor directs the partner to break...
...chosen to make the appeal was barrel-shaped Carlo Schmid, the only Socialist in the German delegation, and at times an eloquent man. Said Carlo Schmid directly to the impassive pair, Khrushchev and Bulganin: "Every man, woman and child in Germany is behind Dr. Adenauer's attempt to obtain the release of these missing Germans." Nikita Khrushchev was impressed. Perhaps, after all, there is a basis on which to do business, he told the German delegates...
...biggest U.S. petroleum producers were over an oil barrel last week. Defense Mobilizer Arthur S. Flemming warned them that unless oil imports are cut voluntarily, the President may slap a rigid quota on imports to protect small U.S. producers. Flemming's suggestion: the oil companies should get together and work out an industry plan to restrict imports. The oil companies, which have had more than their share of antitrust suits, were not eager to work out any scheme that would, in effect, slice up a market between them. Furthermore, they do not agree with Flemming that imports have reached...
...into the scene. Edward Andrews succeeds wonderfully: he hits the apogee of Southern villainy as he slomires agreeably about town, sweet-talking old ladies, flipping quarters like a slow jackpot, and looking all the while like a fat, greasy thumb that has been stuck too long in the pork barrel...
...Hague or firewater, and minded everybody else's business along with plenty of her own. Dolly, who says she started out as a practical nurse, was soon helping Marty run a little barroom at the corner of Jefferson and Fourth. She sang at church socials ("Dolly was a barrel of fun"), faithfully turned up at the Democratic political meetings, and assisted at a lot of neighborhood births. In a few years she was a power in her part of town, and in 1909 Mayor Griffin made her district leader. In 1926 Mayor Bernard L. McFeeley, the political boss...