Word: defunctive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couple of years, Bobby was booted around from team to team. The usually astute George Halas, coach and owner of the Bears, let the future star slip through his fingers and traded him to the now defunct New York Bulldogs...
Blockbuster No. 1. For his text Ives went all the way back to 1926, when Harriman was board chairman of a now-defunct steamship line. The company had obtained two Manhattan piers from Tammany Hall, Ives charged, by paying $250,000 to a corrupt Brooklyn judge. Harriman, testifying before a grand jury in 1930, had denied any knowledge of the transaction. "I can tell you," thundered Ives, "that you can't trust big business . . . particularly the business of the state, to a man who says he didn't know what happened to a quarter of a million dollars...
...Student Council will discuss reactivating the now defunct International Activities Committee at tonight's meeting beginning at 7 p.m. in Phillips Brooks House...
...commandant of the Niagara Falls De Veaux School. The next year he was on the copy desk at the Buffalo Courier-Express, a year later went back to teaching (French) at Buffalo's exclusive Nichols School for boys. He kept on job-jumping (political reporter at the now defunct Buffalo Times, secretary to Buffalo's mayor, district manager of Buffalo's OPA office) before joining Bell as Larry Bell's assistant. An amateur chef, he cooked the meals for Bell executives when they stayed in the plant for days at a stretch rather than face angry...
...Orphan Annie, he answered: "If you think you're going to get our comic strips for use within our circulation area, you're crazy." In a drafty Hempstead garage she set up shop, using an old press and six Linotype machines bought for $50,000 from a defunct daily. As her first issue of 15,000 papers rolled off the press, a staffer came up to his ink-smeared boss and said that the paper looked "pretty good." With a dissatisfaction that has always driven her to do better, Publisher Patterson answered: "I'm afraid it looks...