Word: hackman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, after Dr. Blalock had done 65 such operations, he suddenly found himself a hero in the press. Reporters had got wind of the fact that he had saved 80% of his "doomed" patients. All over the U.S., people read about curly-headed Judy Hackman, the Seattle two-year-old who was operated on last fortnight. They read of other blue babies in Maine, Virginia and Indiana, being prepared for a trip to Baltimore by hopeful parents...
...Cardinals, Pirates, Giants, Cubs and Braves in a bunch behind. Ott's nervous stomach, which put him to bed for two weeks when his 1943 Giants slumped into last place, began acting up. He cajoled, threatened, finally fined players. The only thing still left untried: hiring a hackman to drive a wagonload of barrels (a traditional omen of good luck) around the Polo Grounds. But there was a shortage of barrels...
...London cabby is a very special Briton. For the reckless abandon of the Paris taximan, the invective flow of the Cairo driver, the proletarian dynamism of the Moscow hackman-who, even before the German invasion, drove his car as if it were a tank-the London cabby substitutes a shatterproof Cockney calm. Last week that calm was somewhat ruffled. The London cabby had his back up. He had decided to enter politics...