Word: boiles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girl, a progressive schoolteacher who starts the whole town talking with her sex talks to second graders; a real-estate shyster who turns swampland into pay dirt by renaming it "Powderhorn Hill"; a toothsome teen-age tidbit named Comfort Goodpasture whose Puritan blood is brought to a boil by a guitar-strumming Army corporal from Altus, Okla...
...Middletown, Pennsylvania, man. I was eating my evening meal last night when who should be on the radio but Bill Stern. After hearing him talk about Harvard and Johnny Yovicsin, I was amazed. I was speechless for a while. Then my blood began to boil...
...that. He condemned Harvard for getting beaten by Yale. He condemned the Harvard School. He said something about tearing down the football field. I didn't quite understand what he meant by that. He condemned Johnny Yovicsin as a coach. An unknown. That's when my blood began to boil...
...draw. The objection can always be made that Frankie is only playing Sinatra, a well-known Broadway character, but then he plays the part with complete conviction and a transcendent vulgarity. Outstanding example: When a woman turns him down, he gives her a long, level look that would boil ice, and says: "If you knew what you was throwin' away, you'd cut your throat...
...hottest running debates in U.S. industry today is whether stockholders are better served by boards composed mainly of "inside" directors who are also officers of the corporation, or by "outside" boards consisting principally of men from other companies. Last week the argument was bubbling at a fast boil. In a lengthy study, the American Institute of Management took aim at the board of Bethlehem Steel Corp., all inside directors, reported that the 15 members voted themselves nearly $5,500,000 in bonuses last year despite a $19 million dip in Bethlehem's profits. Said A.I.M., arguing that such bonuses...