Word: hardings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a woman has found herself trapped astride of the curb, loaded down with bundles and flapping desperately like an injured canary in a windtunnel. No matter how hard she waves her handbag or the weekend groceries, the taxicabs go whooshing...
Then, as now, East 108th Street was a hard place to live. It was harder to leave. The palaces of Manhattan's power and wealth rose up only a few blocks to the south, but to the poor of Italian Harlem, they were as remote and incredible as the palaces of India. Frank Costello escaped to live in them by a process as devious and dangerous as an escape from Devil's Island. He became a rumrunner, a slot-machine king, a gambler and intimate of killers, a political fixer-and a man of riches and influence...
Bobbing Flotsam. Drifting, drinking rain water, munching the hard candy which was all they had saved from their emergency rations, the survivors spent a second sleepless night. Colonel Grable caught a two-foot yellowtail, but lost it before he could bring it aboard. One raft overturned twice; all but two flares were lost and the emergency radio would no longer work. Overhead, the men still heard the sound of crisscrossing search planes, twice sighted ships but were unable to attract the attention of the searchers...
...hard birth. At the constitutional convention there were fights over county boundaries, dire threats against Alfalfa Bill. Afraid that the Republican governor of the Oklahoma territory would tamper with the new state's constitution, Bill-walked off with the original document in his pocket. To guard Murray and his papers friends formed a brigade of 5,000 citizens, dubbed themselves the Squirrel Rifles. Everyone said the brigade was a joke, but it was a joke with a point. No one fooled with Alfalfa Bill. The state was born pretty much along the lines which Bill had planned...
...seems hard to believe that, somewhere in this counry, there aren't 50 or 60 boys who want to come to Harvard, who are bright enough to get here, and who can also lug a football with enough finesse to make Harvard an Ivy League power once again. For every football player who comes to Dartmouth from Hawaii there must be another who would come to Harvard if he got the chance...