Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Post exploit equaled its exposure of Charles Ponzi, the foreign-exchange juggler of 1920 whose glib tongue talked Bostonians out of millions. City Editor Eddie Dunn, who got his facts from Ponzi's disgruntled pressagent, scooped the city with the news that Ponzi was actually a Canadian ex-convict. His story pricked the bubble and started Ponzi to jail...
...second half, the Eli back-line managed to exploit the Crimson's defensive weakness, and battered through for two successive touchdowns, despite excellent defensive tackling by "Red" Wylie...
Astronomical Run. Billiards' elite have kept themselves exclusive by devising tougher games every time too many players mastered the sport's simpler forms. In elementary straight-rail billiards, the cue ball must merely hit the two object balls (a rule that experts exploit by "position play," i.e., keeping the balls clicking around in monotonous little triangles). In balkline billiards, the next step up, the table is marked off in areas from which, for a player to go on scoring, at least one object ball must be driven within one or two shots...
...story of The Grass Harp revolves around an emotional conflict between two middle aged spinsters, the Misses Dolly and Varena Talbo, who live in a small town with her nephew. Dolly discovers that her domineering sister wants to exploit a secret Dropsy cure that she had discovered, and she promptly bundles off her nephew and the cook to a tree house in a nearby forest...
...Bevan may often have the streets with him, but inside the Labor Party he runs smack into the powerful antipathy of the conservative Trades Union Congress and Cooperative Union. Right now the trades unions are deeply concerned by Communist attempts to exploit workers' unrest over the sacrifices of rearmament. Last week coal miners in Tonypandy, in Nye Bevan's bailiwick of South Wales, called a mass demonstration against the government and appealed to Bevan to take part. Bevan saw his chance to ingratiate himself with conservatives in his own party. "I refuse," said he, "to partake...