Word: goons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herald Tribune. Red's favorite sports : baseball, football, boxing, horse racing. Says Smith: "I like the sports that write well. Baseball writes itself. It's two out and the bases are loaded and - well, you've got a situation right there. In basketball, some big goon throws the ball up and it either goes in or it doesn...
John Lewis-who handpicks his local officials, uses goon squads to maintain order, and ordinarily brooks no defiance from his aides-lugubriously denied outside of court that he had any more real power than any other citizen of the U.S. "Tomorrow a psychological wave might pass through the minds of the mine workers and wash away whatever influence I have...
...Page One banner in the New York Daily News screamed: HUNT RED GOON IN UAW BOMBING. Inside, in a four-column, copyrighted exclusive, Reporter Jack Tur-cott put the finger on a mysterious assassin who was the "nation's No. i suspect" in the attempted dynamiting of Walter Reuther's union headquarters in Detroit (TIME, Jan. 2). Police in 48 states, wrote Turcott, were hunting one Paul F. Kassay, described by the News as a "Moscow-trained saboteur" and a "Communist fanatic . . . and avowed party hatchet man" who has been "at large" since another sabotage attempt...