Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brazilian politics," ostentatiously wears shabby clothes and the sorrowful look of a much-kicked dog. Neither man is in the grip of an ideology; what makes both of them run is the attraction of political office with the Presidency at the end of the track. Kubitschek (TIME, Feb. 21) is a hard-running presidential candidate. Quadros (TIME, Nov. 1) is passing up the race this time, but from the sidelines he has greatly improved Kubitschek's prospects...
...looks like a busy horse parlor, but its huge blackboard reflects more than track results: data on the big-time sports events are entered on the board, giving researchers the results at a glance. For the offbeat queries S.I.R. subscribes to a wire service and burrows through stacks of dog-eared reference books...
...Jeffries was the only reason for including a tired sequence about planned amusement at the beach, and Whedon met every demand of the evening good-humoredly and ably. I cared least for him in a sketch called "We See You, Fabritzius!" but then nothing or nobody could curb that dog...
...start organizing for the Detroit teamsters' locals. With most of the area's teamsters already signed up when he joined, Hoffa looked for new fields to conquer; he threatened to cut off deliveries to some Detroit retailers, thus organized their clerks. By 1946 he was top dog of Detroit's 87,000 teamsters. In 1953 a House committee examined his rule of the Michigan teamsters, found "racketeering, extortion and gangsterism." Along the way, Labor Leader Hoffa (annual income: a reported $30,000) also picked up part ownership in a brewery, a trotting track and summer camps...
...Force flew dog food to Okinawa, "probably setting a world's record" for the cost of dog food...