Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within Beck's own union, there were uneasy stirrings. "They ought to hang Beck," said one Irish-American teamster in Local 682 in St. Louis. In Local 524 in Yakima, Wash., the teamsters did just that, stringing up an effigy of Beck and setting it afire with cigarette lighters. "Beck's been talking about us paying for his defense fund," growled a Seattle taxi driver. "We been hanging around the cab stands all day trying to figure out how to slip some dough to the prosecution." Said a truck driver in Portland, Ore.: "It's high time...
...total; 2) conspiracy, five years and $10,000; 3) obstruction of justice, five years and $5,000. Listed among 24 overt acts was one that indicated that Hoffa's consuming interest was more in what the McClellan committee might do to Dave Beck than in what it might hang on Jimmy Hoffa. Remarking an some of the committee papers that had been given him, Hoffa said that it looked as if Beck's goose was cooked, then asked for more papers dealing with the McClellan committee's investigation of Beck. Thus, in his anxiety to watch...
When the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine was opened in 1893, a high-school graduate could get right into medical college and expect to hang out his shingle in about four years. "The Hopkins," as Baltimoreans call it, changed all that. It demanded a college degree, then four years of medical study. This basic plan, with some variations, has been adopted by virtually all U.S. medical schools. With at least a year's internship added, it has come to mean at least nine, perhaps eleven years, between high school and the practice of medicine...
...Mother Goose's story of bringing home the bacon, the cat, as soon as it got its saucer of milk, began to kill the rat, which began to gnaw the rope, which began to hang the butcher, who began to kill the ox, which began to drink the water, which began to quench the fire, which began to burn the stick, which began to beat the dog, which began to bite the little pig-which then in fright jumped over the stile so that the old woman brought it home from market that night after...
Understandably irritated by a policy which freezes wages but not prices, French workers have launched an ominous series of strikes, in one of which some of the Finance Minister's own employees marched down the rue de Rivoli chanting "Hang Ramadier." Inexorably, the day is approaching when, if they want to keep their patient healthy and happy, Drs. Mollet and Ramadier will have to do more than ease his distress with a phony thermometer...