Word: fistedness
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On the other hand, Willys' hard-fisted Chairman Ward Canaday, 67, was willing to sell because, in spite of the fact that Willys has been able to build up big sales, largely from its jeeps, Canaday has never been able to pay a dividend on the common stock, of...
Only a week had gone by since Congress formally began its long-threatened investigations of U.S. colleges and universities. But presidents and professors throughout the nation were already stewing and seething in anger. The men running the investigations were hardly the type that teachers could trust. They had been ruthless...
The diminutive Ecuadoran, thrice intercollegiate champ while at the University of Miami, is best known for his two-fisted forehand. Like Kid Gavilan's "bolo punch," the weapon is crowd pleasing but not necessarily any more effective than the orthodox technique.
The already overloaded bandwagon pulled to a groaning stop in front of the Paramount theatre this week to let The Turning Point show us how a professor named John Conroy would have handled the Kefauver Committee. In the process another unnamed, though typically midwestern city is purged of its civic...
Conroy, played by Edmund O'Brien, is not alone in his civic duties. He is joined by William Holden's two-and-a-half fisted newspaperman, Jerry McKibben, a tough type who splits his time between platitudes and flirting with Conroy's girl friend, Alexis Smith.