Word: clubbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PRESIDENCY Week of Reckoning Briefcase-carrying relays of U.S. civilian and military leaders jogged into Augusta's National Golf Club last week to assist vacationing Dwight Eisenhower in nailing down the framework of a balanced budget for fiscal 1961 (beginning next July 1). The week's first wave from Washington, a Pentagon platoon led by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, met with Ike for four hours in the National's trophy room, was firmly reminded that the armed forces must accommodate themselves to a fairly level rate of spending. Emerging from the key session: a decision to keep...
...testimony, Loughran and some of his crooked aides, helped by President Emanuel Lapidus of the 600-member Salesmen and Poultry Workers Union, swung butchers into line, wrapped up what Investigator Kaplan rates as "millions of dollars" over a period of at least 18 months. The butchers in the "club," some of whom were doing a business of $10,000 to $15,000 a week, continued to rob their customers blind...
...Boss Loughran (who ironically had won a reputation for his exposes of rackets in retail businesses) was haled before a county grand jury, fired from his $8,250-a-year job and arrested on charges of extortion. Investigator Kaplan promised that the butcher expose was only beginning. "The protection club was all over New York," said he. "There are 5,326 butchers in the city. You will have to guess at how many were involved, especially in depressed areas, where it hurts the little housewives the most...
...game of precise and powerful virtuosity -incredible catches, runners who break away from swarms of opponents just when they seem stopped, crunching tackles and jet-powered blocks. No experienced pro fan ever leaves a game in its last five minutes when his team is only two touchdowns behind-any club can, and may, explode in those five minutes and win. Pro football is a game in which every carefully selected, battle-tried man seems larger than life, not only in skill and speed, but in sheer brute strength...
Coach Cooney Weiland yesterday stated, "We ought to be a much improved hockey club over last year...