Word: face
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Papa." To union members, David Dubinsky is known fondly as "Papa" behind his back, as "Dubinsky" or "D.D." to his face. Waiting to see him in the reception room of his sumptuous office, the visitor does not have to be told when the boss goes by. The door flies open explosively and a stubby little man in slacks and sport shirt bursts out, waving a handful of papers, spouting orders, and trailing hovering assistants like gulls behind a tug. In moments of repose, behind a blond curved desk that was once Edsel Ford's, Dubinsky squirms with...
...Maine woods. Hildreth, who had abandoned politics when Margaret Chase Smith edged him out of the 1948 senatorial race, was pleased as punch with his new job, endowment drive & all. Said he: "Private institutions of learning today must be made self-supporting and operated within their budgets or face the necessity of appealing...for [government] funds...
...most brilliant of all Pinkham advertising ideas was Dan's proposal to put his mother's face on every ad. The result was inspired to the last detail-"the neat black silk dress, the tortoise-shell comb, the white fichu fastened with a cameo brooch," the perpetual smile, the sagacious and composed elderly features. Here was everybody's grandmother...
Funds & Fancies. Because it strikes tragically at children, polio has received more publicity (especially after Polio Victim Franklin Roosevelt became President) than many a deadlier ailment.* To loosen purse strings, fund raisers have played on parents' heart strings. They have emphasized the bafflement of medical science in the face of so tricky an enemy as polio. Over the years, parents have become so impressed that they can scarcely think of polio without panic...
...game old Gus about the head and body, danced out of range when his opponent tried to reach him with sledgehammer rights. Except for round six, when Lesnevich spent himself in a hammer & tongs attack, the fight was all Ezzard's. When wornout, scar-tissued Gus Lesnevich, his face puffed and bleeding, failed to get off his stool for the eighth round, the fight went to Ezzard on a technical knockout. In spite of the human virtues which had denied Ezzard Charles the true killer instinct of the great fighter, he looked like the best heavyweight in the game...