Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston, Mayor James Curley, who has done time on a mail fraud rap, took a backward look at his life & hard times. "I might have taken the primrose path," he admitted righteously, "but I chose the thorny path-trying to do something for the needy, the unfortunate. Any man that takes the hard, thorny road will always be accused of being a boss and a buccaneer...
When Ben Hogan and his U.S. Ryder Cup golfers came ashore from the Queen Elizabeth at Southampton, meat-rationed Britons swallowed hard at the sight of the team's 600 steaks, plus bacon and hams, which went through customs duty free...
...scanty circulation and advertising revenue. It was too soon to tell which papers would survive. But one small democratic newspaper, Straubing's Niederbayrische Nachrichten, had already succumbed; it was driven out by the Straubinger Tage blatt, revived by Dr. Georg Huber, who had published it under the Nazis. Hard hit by six new competitors, another licensed paper had dropped 9,000 readers. New Score. Military Government offi cials hoped that the democratic press could weather the economic war, but the battles would be bitter. The nationalists had banded together into a new press association and raised a war chest...
Belled Brides. At Jesse's next school-Winston High-his problems were different. He went there full of confidence, after getting a degree at Lincoln Memorial University. But in that back-country district, cut off by muddy roads, Jesse found it hard to keep ahead of his pupils. One of them, a pimply-faced boy named Budge Waters, had learned his textbooks by heart before school even opened. He could recite all the Pharaohs of Egypt, and "when we had disagreed on dates," recalls Jesse, "Budge was always right...
...Geoffrey last week was getting a big share of Britain's aircraft export orders (?18.5 million for 1949's first half, a 48% increase over the 1948 rate). He already has orders from the British government and British Overseas Airways Corp. for 16 Comets, and is hard after U.S. orders, promising delivery in 1952-53-No Hands. In spite of their lead, the British were by no means assured of victory. They have developed techniques before, only to fumble them at the administrative and production level. And there were still many jet plane problems to be licked before...