Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...energy, enthusiasm and his loud, table-thumping speeches caught the eye of Michael ("Bloody Mike") Casey, the famed leader of San Francisco's teamsters. Casey recommended him to Dan Tobin, and in 1926 Tobin made Beck a teamster organizer. It was a wise, decision...
There was also little question but that a grateful Administration would look on labor's new demands with a kindly eye. Leaving the A.F.L. convention in Cincinnati, Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin reminded newsmen that wages of some 16 million workers were now trailing 9% behind the Bureau of Labor Statistics' figures on the cost of living. Labor, he implied, could count on his help to close...
...Sartre has written "Red Gloves" with an objective eye on the conflict between the two arguments represented by the assassin and the leader. It is not so tersely-written or compact a play as "No Exit", neither is it as outlandishly unrealistic and clumsy as "The Respectful Prostitute." Except for the sudden flaming-up of the love between the leader and the wife which seemed as if it had only just been scribbled on the margin of the script, M. Sartre has written a play that American playwrights could be well to study...
...King's Bench prison. Wilkes had 15 guests in his cell that day, and Rush noted that he had an extra room for his ilbrary, "from which I formed an indifferent opinion of his taste and judgment." In France, Rush saw Louis XV, who "had a good eye, and an intelligent countenance, and hence he was said to be "the most sensible looking fool in Europe.' " The great Encyclopedist, Diderot, entertained Rush in his library, and the Marquis of Mirabeau invited him to a "coterie" at his home...
...quarterback Bill Henry runing the show for three periods with one eye sealed tight by a scratch; Captain Kenny O'Donnell scoring what proved to be the winning touchdown with his fractured leg in a plaster cast; third string center Chuck Glynn saving a touchdown by knocking Keller out of bounds on the Harvard two on fourth down; third-string tailback Jim Kenary intercepting a Furse pass on the Harvard seven; and above all, it was the finesse with which everybody carried out his assignment, whether it was blocking, tackling, or running. "The most beautiful drilled team I've seen...