Word: fends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blough was well aware that he had to fight a two-front war. He not only had to fend off McDonald but, like any man who has put together a grand alliance, also had to keep the other steel companies united behind him. Both Blough and McDonald knew that if one company broke from line and made a private settlement, all the others would have to follow. McDonald has scurried about in search of an opening in management's ranks, tried time and again to sit down with the heads of individual steel companies. But Blough, skilled in negotiating...
...Beauharnois lock, Elizabeth, like a suburban housewife back-seat driving a new station wagon, worried as the yacht warped close to the concrete walls. In mock alarm, she enlisted Ike's help, and each reached over the rail with both arms to help fend the 5,769-ton ship away from the abrasive concrete. When the crisis passed, Elizabeth hurried to the side of John Diefenbaker to demonstrate with thumb and forefinger how close the ship had come to scarring its paint. Above the lock Elizabeth and Philip left the ship to> escort Ike and Mamie to their waiting...
...Five?" Susskind's hand is always out, while his mind is nimbly at work on projects that range from the selling of nylons to the peddling of statues of the Virgin Mary. Fidelman desperately attempts to fend him off, first with handouts, then with insults, but Susskind clings like chewing gum to a shoe: he pops up in a trattoria to spoil Fidelman's appetite by hungrily watching him eat; he stands shivering at his side to shame Fidelman for having warm clothing. Given four dollars, Susskind contemptuously counts the money, demands: "If four, then why not five...
...time he had turned 16, Herbert O. Yardley had a head start down the road to juvenile delinquency. His mother died and left him $200, and his father left him to fend for himself. Furthermore, he had a taste for high life in the local saloons, and at the turn of the century, Worthington, Ind. was loaded with them. But Herbert was saved by sport. Monty, the boss of his favorite barroom, was a gambler who taught his young customer the finer points of that great indoor game-poker...
...well-to-do homes. He eased into the driveway of a handsome French provincial house on South 24th Street, pulled into the garage, forced his way into the home of C. Lauer Ward, president of the Capital Steel Co. Starkweather prodded Mrs. Clara Ward, 46, and Housekeeper Lillian Fend, 51, to the second floor, bound and gagged them, then stabbed them to death. About 5:30, after a conference with Nebraska's Governor Victor Anderson at the Capitol a few blocks away, Lauer Ward, 47, came home. When he opened his front door, Starkweather was waiting in the hall...