Word: clutched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Occupational Hazard. In Winnipeg, when police asked the occupation of Benjamin Monette, convicted of driving his car with faulty brakes, broken speedometer, defective lights and a clutch held together with a rubber band, he answered: "I'm a mechanic...
...time, says Italian Designer Gio Ponti, for the modern male to rescue the double bed from the dainty clutch of the modern female. The ordinary double bed with its feminine frills not only sins against good taste, he argues, but is no place where a man can be sick with comfort or die with majesty. Agush with strong and sensible views on everything from bathroom faucets to skyscraper spires, Milan's Ponti exuberantly looks forward to the day when walls twist like trees and look like vegetables. See ART, The Pleasures of Ponti...
...gamy dealings of Teamster President Dave Beck. Counsel Kennedy and Arkansas' Committee Chairman John L. McClellan quickly arranged a job for Cheasty, and he agreed to help catch Hoffa in a trap. During the next few weeks, with FBI agents lurking in the background, Cheasty passed Hoffa a clutch of committee documents, and Hoffa turned over bundles of bills in return. In all, it added up to $3,000. When the agents nabbed him one evening in Washington's Dupont Plaza Hotel, Jimmy was carrying in an inside coat pocket a document that Cheasty had handed...
...were charged with engaging in corrupt practices, others were accused of pursuing "their own economic policies." One after another, the Zhdanovites disappeared. Virtually the entire Leningrad party apparat led by Peter Popkov, Zhdanov's successor as city secretary, was silently liquidated. In Moscow the purge carried away a clutch of notables, including the youngest member of the Politburo, State Planning Boss Nikolai Voznesensky. Dozens were executed...
...Sukarno's loudest and most effective support has come from the Communists. The President argued that he was riding a three-legged horse unless the Communists (among the top four votegetters in Indonesia) were included in the government, and over a protest of other parties, Sukarno appointed a clutch of Communists and fellow travelers to the National Cabinet, his new super-Cabinet...