Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fearful Wayne Morse had plenty of company in Big Labor. The A.F.L.'s Political League called the Republicans "Northern Dixiecrats." A C.I.O. propagandist coined an angry name for the coalition: "Dixiegop," a nightmare animal with "the front legs and face of a donkey [and] the trunk and rear end of an elephant," which would haunt organized labor's dreams...
Deepfreeze. A few miles down the road, Bob Orr finished washing up at the sink and lowered his big, shirtless frame into a new upholstered chair in his living room. "We've worked hard and we're proud of it, but we figure we have earned everything we got," he said. Last year, he spent $3,000 remodeling his kitchen-an electric stove, automatic dishwashing machine, a big Deepfreeze, a whole set of fancy kitchen cabinets. He has "three or four" radios around the house, including a radio-phonograph for the kids; his four barns...
Tall, 23-year-old William L. Cox is a cocky, capable truckman and he drives a big rig-a tractor and a double-tank trailer. Some of his admiring fellow truckers would say that sharp-eyed Billy could roll his rig through an oven door without jarring the roast...
...week. On a curve outside Pinole, Calif., he swung around a car. Another car was coming toward him. A woman was driving, and there were three kids in the back seat. Billy saw the car waver, then veer to the wrong side of the road. Billy wrenched at the big wheel, sent the rig thundering off the pavement, across a shallow ditch, through a barbed-wire fence...
Tailor & Cutter, British trade magazine, picked the Marquess of Milford Haven as "the Sartorial Year's Best Man." Anthony Eden won the "Order of the Dead Needle" as "the year's big disappointment." Even the Canadian press had described Eden as "distinctly shabby," and he had made the shocking disclosure that he no longer had a tailor. But to British tailors the most painful sight of all was rumpled Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin: "We can think of no one else in a public position who seems to pay such little regard to his clothes...