Word: fording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sweet smell of success wafted over Chicago's Comiskey Park. With just three weeks left to play, the go-go White Sox were still in first place, and Commissioner Ford Frick had flashed the sign to start preparing World Series tickets. Even the San Francisco Giants, leaders of the National League, were giving the White Sox a vote of confidence by sending a scout to look them over...
Masters & Apprentices. Ahead lie major innovations, many of them seeded by the prodigious Ford Foundation. Already Ford and its Fund for the Advancement of Education have spent more than $10 million for some 50 educational TV projects. Most imposing: Washington County, Md., where 18,000 first-to twelfth-grade students in 49 schools get about 120 classroom lessons a week on a closed-circuit system. By all evidence, it improves the lessons. The best teachers can reach the most students, and given several days to rehearse, the best extend themselves...
...Hoffa's top lobbyist, blundering, blunderbussing Sidney Zagri. Soon after Zagri denounced Thompson as an enemy to labor, Thompson began getting threatening telephone calls, finally reported them to the FBI. Driving to the Capitol one morning last week. Thompson was stopped at a red light when a green Ford truck pulled up next to him. A man leaned out the window, pointed a rubber syringe at Thompson, squirted a stream of liquid. Only bad aim saved Frank Thompson from serious injury: the liquid was sulphuric acid, and the little that did hit Thompson burned a hole through his shirt...
...Started with a Kiss (M-G-M). "Any marriage is wrong when you take the sex out of it," complains newlywed Air Force Sergeant Glenn Ford, who has just arrived from two sexless years in Iceland. "Do you think you're smarter than Freud?" he asks Showgirl Debbie Reynolds, who thinks she is - almost. In the first days of their marriage she gets the notion in her orange-rinsed head that sex clouds her judgment. "The trouble with us is the only thing we have in common is this physical attraction," she explains. In order to assure herself that...
...many travels as a pressagent, he has been known to ford a river or brave localities where the mercury knows no bounds in order to plant a sponsor's name...