Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Digging by Hand. The drill ran into trouble just short of the 100-ft. mark. In relays, men were lowered by a hoisting bucket to dig the rest of the way by hand. It was grueling work. Dirt and rocks as big as a man's head had to be hoisted up bucket by bucket. Burly Bill Yancey, a 38-year-old sewerage contractor who had been on a wartime underwater demolition team, dug for two hours and 20 minutes before he was hauled...
...Big, Strapping Germans. "Claude," his mother whimpered, "don't you think that tomorrow we should go to see the doctor again?" The son struck her angrily. He jumped up to get his Mauser, began to clean and polish, clean and polish. He was a marksman, proud of his success in shooting competitions. When World War II broke out, he had eagerly joined the French army. But all spring and summer in 1940, he marched endlessly over the roads of France, without so much as seeing an enemy to fire at. He returned to Calais to look with the eyes...
...Big Sink. Under Publisher Dolly Thackrey and big, white-haired Executive Editor Paul Tierney, 54, the Post would once again be "liberal democratic." It would also have to pay its own way because Mrs. Thackrey had sunk all she could into the paper...
...Big Guns. Founder Francis S. Street and Francis S. Smith never dreamed things would turn out that way when they took over the New York Weekly Dispatch in 1855. Editing their magazines and paperbacked books for men only, they bought the humor of Bill Nye and Josh Billings, the Buffalo Bill stories of Ned Buntline (Edward Zane Carroll Judson), the dime novels by Nick Carter (Colonel Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey), 1,000 stories about Frank Merriwell by Burt L. Standish (Gilbert Patten...
...trouble getting singing jobs in Broadway shows, at the New York World's Fair, in Radio City Music Hall (billing himself as Robert Field). For a while he was master of ceremonies in Manhattan's big, lowbrow nightclub, Leon & Eddie's. But for a man who wanted to get into opera, he seemed to be making no progress at all. By 1947, Tenor Rounseville, aged 30, found himself in vaudeville...