Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of the rain and the defeat of the home team in its last game of the season, the spirits of several thousand Williams reunion-bound alumni did not suffer, since most left before the end of the third inning. The pageantry and parading (including the jazz band of '34 and a bicycle-built-for-six manned by the class of '39) failed to inspire the Williams, squad, which committed five errors and managed only six hits off the pitching of Byron Johnson...
...Leopold refused the urgent pleas of his ministers to escape to London and set up a government in exile. Instead he surrendered to the Nazis and, while his nation was still occupied by Germans, married pretty Liliane Baels, the commoner daughter of a Belgian politician. At war's end Leopold moved on from Germany to Switzerland while liberated Belgium held a plebiscite to determine whether or not he should return home. Leopold's supporters narrowly carried the day, but so many riots greeted the King's arrival in Brussels that within a year Leopold surrendered the crown...
...which had stood gamely by him during the pre-abdication days, but now grumbled that Cabinet ministers were being humiliated and sabotaged by "someone" at the royal court. Last week Leopold summoned Premier Eyskens to Laeken palace, began by blustering that the press attack on him "has to stop!" ended by saying resignedly that "I will leave Laeken; you must find me another place to live." Leopold's preference: the 18th century Villa Belvedere, just across the street from Laeken, once (under the second Leopold) occupied by royal mistresses. The government's countersuggestion: the Belgian royal villa...
...week's end the D.J.s were still collecting their annual dew, sloshing from hospitality suite to hospitality suite getting ready for an all-night party with top entertainers (Patti Page, Vic Damone, Peggy Lee, Pat Boone, etc.). The temperature in Miami was in the 80s, and there were circles of sweat even under the tone arms of the companies' endlessly blaring phonographs. But most of the D.J.s would stay happy for another year, and that is what mattered-for, as all the companies agreed: "Without you, boy, we're dead...
...rough-hewn factory worker whom circumstance elects as first president of his local. An idealist to begin with, he sells out for a mess of spoilage (a union vice-presidency) by making a deal with a union thug named Tony Russo. Before long, Kilcoyne lands in the deadly end-justifies-the-means trap, winds up condoning mutilation and murder, puts union funds into such investments as race tracks and silk ties. By the time a Senate committee gets at him, he is powerful, self-assured, and cockily forgetful of his past actions...