Word: hards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Defense Lawyer Stryker may command big fees, but his reputation was not enhanced by all of the blarney which the majority of the jury so easily sensed. Federal Prosecutor Tom Murphy, who draws a small salary for hard work well done, had it over Stryker "like a tent." His summation was a gem of logical courtroom oratory. By the way ... if Tom had needed help in his argument, he could have called on his brother (none other than "Fireman" Murphy, ex-Yankee pitcher) to quench Stryker's pyrotechnic palaver...
...showed in the horny-handed handling it gave the ECA appropriation, in the stony eye it cast on the arms program, despite an all-star presentation by Secretary of State Acheson, George Marshall and the Big Brass in summer tans. Internationalists of proven good will were as stern as hard-shelled isolationists...
Some 200 students and teachers have been hard at work all month. The students, who come from 20 states, had paid about $250 tuition apiece for the six-week summer session; the teachers, many of whom play for northern symphony orchestras, got their expenses only. At week's end, the hard work paid off in a lively concert by the yo-piece student-teacher band before a crowd of 1,200. Main event of the evening: Grieg's Concerto in A Minor, with Guest Pianist Eugene List, the ex-G.I. who played for Truman and Stalin...
Home of the Brave. A combat case history that slugs hard at anti-Negro prejudice (TIME...
Something was also being done about the big TV problem that lurked upstairs. Buyers were shying away from the high ($50 to $150) cost of installing and servicing aerials; worse still, many an apartment landlord was forbidding any more installations on his already cluttered rooftop, thus hitting hard at the big city audience, television's best market. To meet this threat, Raytheon Manufacturing Co. and Chicago's Earl ("Madman") Muntz had each brought out sets with built-in aerials, which gave fair service in areas where signals were strong...