Word: ble
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another. The third got away - with DiMaggio's money. The papers all ran big stories on the East Side Earp, as one reporter called him, but Charlie was fed up with public ity. "Patting you on the back," snapped Charlie, "doesn't put butter on my ta ble. It doesn't feed the family." And nothing seems to keep bandits out of his shop. The only way to do that, Charlie figures, is to get into some safer business - like police work...
...packed with fans from Spanish Harlem to watch Griffith defend his crown against Challenger José Stable and Puerto Rico's José Torres battle Willie Pastrano for the light-heavyweight championship in a rare doubleheader. Like Paret, Stable was a Cuban, and the chants started-"Sta-ble! Stable! Sta-ble!"-as soon as the challenger clambered into the ring. Emile got mostly boos except from ringside, where Mama Emelda Griffith and Cousin Bernie led the cheers. "The best, the best, the best!" shouted Bernie, as Griffith buckled Stable's knees with a right cross in the very...
...even a seat in the Commons, he painted and laid bricks, traveled widely, and wrote an average of a million words a year. Later, during the dismal era when Hitler and Mussolini were rising and Britain shuttered its windows to the world, Churchill returned to the House to rum ble bitter warnings from his seat below the Tory gangway. He was unheeded, but never unheard...
...Then he turned upon labor the very same words that President Kennedy had used against industry after the dramatic 1962 steel crisis: "We can and must, under the responsibility given to us by the Constitution, and by statute and by necessity, point out the national interest. And, where applica ble, we can and must and will enforce the law on restraints of trade and national emergencies " When he finished, he stood smiling and waving in response to a storm of applause. But some of Big Labor's most powerful leaders were much less enthusiastic about his speech and about...
When a man who has had a few drinks and a moderate dose of barbiturates before going to bed is found seriously ill next morning, doctors have a hard time deciding just what his trou- ble is, and an even harder time treating him. If he is dead, the coroner has difficulty deciding between accident and suicide. Medical researchers are still debating whether the effects of alcohol and barbiturates*are multiplied or simply added together. But now, in a report to the American Chemical Society, a biochemist and a physician suggest an explanation for the alky-pheno combo...