Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without any outstanding backs except Eddie Britt, Nick Morris, Jim Hobin and Andy Callan, and the Holy Cross mentor will have to work hard for the rest of the week getting these youngsters, some of whom played only 59 minutes of the game last year, in shape for the fray...
...answer the opening whistle against the pirates. Steve Hokuf, the crackerjack quarterback from Nebraska, who has been laid up with injuries, will be back in the starting backfield. Gail O'Brien, Steve Sinko, Marne Intrieri, Flavio Tosi and Ernie Concannon, who played bangup football when sent into the fray, are almost certain to be promoted to the first team line...
...Building, breaking every window on the way. At that point the deputies sallied forth to break up the mob. Women and children fled before a wave of tear gas but the men returned to the attack. Again the deputies sallied forth. Rocks, bombs, clubs, shouts, curses made up the fray. Some deputies armed with shotguns fired on their attackers. After a two-hour struggle the strikers were driven from the village. Two pickets lay dying, nearly 50 wounded...
...adequate issue was this for the strike that San Francisco had last week. Other marine unions?seamen, pilots, cooks and stewards?jumped into the fray with demands of their own for pay, hours, union recognition. Hot-headed strike leaders welcomed alliance with open arms, for it gave them an opportunity to shake a bigger stick. When Joseph P. Ryan, national president of the International Longshoremen's Association, tried to negotiate a settlement on the basis of non-partisan control of the hiring halls, Leader Bridges and his embattled followers turned down the agreement because it did not provide for their...
Hearing on these proposed amendments was set for this week in Washington. Bursting with indignation the American Newspaper Publishers Association girded for another fray, in which their field general would be, as always, Lawyer Elisha Hanson. Chubby, suave, immensely clever, with a facility for catching witnesses off guard with abrupt questions, Lawyer Hanson has long been the Press's No. i lobbyist in Washington...