Word: bitten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deal. New plans, new programs, most of all what columnists have long called "new approaches," hung high like pie in the sky. Any bright young Senator could make headlines by calling a press conference to tell how the U.S. could become the Man in the Moon. Even hard-bitten Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had become a space specialist, gone clean out of this world...
American Airlines moved closer to settling the 2½-week-old walkout of 1,500 pilots. American's gritty President C. R. Smith flew to Washington for a summit conference with the hard-bitten boss of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Air Line Pilots Association, Clarence Sayen. Pressure was on both sides to settle before American starts to lay off most of its 20,500 nonstriking employees this week. Probable terms: three pilots in jets, higher pilot pay and improved benefits...
...back seat of the Meyners' state-owned Cadillac. "These women come up to me with these flowers and they all seem to stick me in the chest when they pin them on me. I keep the pins as souvenirs." Says she: "We're not bitten by the presidential...
...most considerable sculptor since Moore." Armitage has long since left Yorkshire and set up his studio in London, but he admits that, once Yorkshire's industrial grimness gets under the skin, it cannot be washed off. Says he: "There's a hardness, a discreetness; everything is somehow bitten off and sharp, like Greece, but of course without the warmth of Greece...
...Post-mortem accolades went to the Yankees' burly Turley, who had a hand in every one of the last three-in-a-row victories-winning one singlehanded, getting the last out in another, saving the final game with a spectacular 6| innings of two-hit relief pitching. Hard-bitten Rightfielder Hank Bauer led the Yankees at bat with a .323 average and four home runs. But the man Milwaukee will remember most vividly was a catcher-outfielder, Elston Gene Howard...