Word: coast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They do things big on The Coast--and fast. Chicago fans suffered patiently for 40 years waiting for their Sox to make the Series. They endured the dog days of August when Luke Appling, Zeke Bonura & Co. played the St. Louis Browns for weeks on end. They measured victory by defeat--a 6-5 loss to the Senators was a good...
Anthony Carfano. alias "Little Augie" Pisano, 61, started out as a two-bit bootlegger in the slums of his native Brooklyn, but he came up fast. By 1930 he had become Al Capone's East Coast viceroy, specialized in laundry, loan-shark and slot-machine rackets, as well as rumrunning. He knew every hood worth knowing, was also friendly with the late Mayor Jimmy Walker (in Prohibition days, Pisano saw to it that the Tammany Hall wigwams were plentifully supplied with needled beer and hijacked hooch). But there were nasty rumors that Augie was a finger...
...Summit v. the Schools. In Lancashire, the closing of 72 cotton mills in five constituencies threatened to drive thousands of touchy, often Tory mill hands into the arms of Labor. In south-coast Devonport, audiences listened stonily to speeches about the summit and demanded new schools. Among the coalpits of the Tyne, in Scotland and in the Yorkshire foundry towns, pockets of unemployment threatened at least a dozen government seats. And both sides fretted over the effect of mass transfers of traditionally Labor voters from city slums to new outlying housing developments...
...spot study in a 50-sq. mi. section of Formosa's west coast to find the source of ''blackfoot," a locally common arterial disease that causes fingers and toes to become gangrenous; sometimes the victim loses both hands and feet...
CHARLESTON, S.C., Sept. 29--Slashing across the South Carolina coast with peak winds estimated at 140 miles an hour, Hurricane Gracie swirled inland Tuesday night...