Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pattern which, with a few cents' variation here & there, would presumably fit the rest of the struck steel industry comfortably, and Phil Murray had timed it well. In Cleveland, where he had a lot at stake this week, Phil Mur ray and jovial, ruddy Joseph Larkin, a Bethlehem Steel vice president, walked smiling into a roomful of steelworker negotiators to break the news. Then, serenaded by workers' cheers and loud singing, they called a press conference to explain the settlement. President Murray was able to walk into the C.I.O.'s highly charged annual convention with a great...
...beyond Suzanne's horizon, in Canada, The Bronx, West Virginia and Montmartre, bustling, hopeful, confident people were ordering their lives and dreams to fit the big plane's movements. In The Bronx, motherly Mrs. Raoul Silbernagel was busily planning a welcome-home party for her husband, who had been in Europe for three weeks on business. Cesia Lowenstein had only just returned to her Manhattan apartment after divorcing her husband, Ernest, in Reno, but she too was preparing a welcome. "Ernest was always away on business," she explained. "I couldn't follow him abroad because I wanted...
...Jake Kramer, 28, king of the pro tennis players, looked a little gaunt at 162 Ibs. For two years, from Madrid to Melbourne, he had been eating in hotels and hash-houses, sleeping when he could, trying to stay fit for one big match after another. Last week Big Jake cast a quizzical eye upon 190-lb. Pancho Gonzales, 21, twice U.S. amateur champion and current aspirant to Kramer's professional throne. Said Kramer: "He'll melt off some of that weight, and every pound will make it tougher on me. Pancho didn't get enough work...
...pillboxes. Comrade Thompson was not exactly grateful for the favor. "Judge Medina attempted with a last-minute two-bit maneuver to cloak his vicious class role with a whitewash of judicial fairness," Thompson complained later. "I take no pleasure that this Wall Street judicial flunky has seen fit to equate my possession of the D.S.C. with two years in prison...
...detachment gives us." He predicted that capitalism and Marxism could not long endure in one world, and that whichever force was better able, morally and materially, "to deliver the goods" would in the end win out. But he did not say which of the two forces he considered better fit to deliver...