Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last summer when he ripped through boys' tournaments in straight sets, won the National Outdoor Boys' Singles championship without trouble. Besides a powerful forehand, he has an exceptional change of pace, a tantalizing drop shot. A big fellow for his age, Dick Mouledous (whose father runs a butcher shop) is over 6 ft., weighs...
Seven months after the end of the war, their new rations seemed, to many Britons, worse than war itself. Said one suburbanite, standing in the queue before the butcher's shop: "There's been more moaning over this than over the buzz bombs...
...President Clark, an ex-hog butcher, and his conservative fellow officers. They try to do the will of their tumultuous rank-&-file, keep the union's neck in and hold down its strong left wing (led by jut-jawed Director Herbert March of District 1), all at the same time...
...Clark of the turbulent young C.I.O. meat packers' union had also called out his men. The cattle-pens of Chicago were nearly empty. The big four's refrigerators were bare of their hams and sides of beef, once the envy of a hungry world. Housewives were stampeding butcher shops...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes (Roger John Brownlow Keyes), 73, doughty, fire-&-ice British naval hero of the famed World War I raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend, organizer of World War II's "butcher-and-bolt" Commandos (his son, Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Keyes, was killed in a Commando raid on Rommel's African HQ); of cardiac asthma; at his estate in Buckingham...