Word: harley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harley Stansberry of Sterling, Colo., did some heavy washing in her basement two months ago, and she was extra careful to empty her tub of lye water well away from little Mike, who was playing on the floor near by. But Mike, 28 months, found the drain hose, and some of the lye solution was still in it. Mike swallowed and screamed. His mother rushed him to a doctor, who gave him mineral oil and kept him on soothing milk and ice cream for three weeks. But one morning Mike could no longer swallow: scar tissue had closed his esophagus...
Crimson coach Floyd Wilson will start three sophomores along with seniors Harry Sacks and Captain Roger Bulger. Bob Barnett will team with Bulger at guard, while Dick Harley and Phil Haughey will start at the forward posts...
...American Activities Committee, announced last week that he would seek to have that committee abolished. The Senate Judiciary Committee, once the most influential committee of Congress, goes from the frying pan to the fire -from North Dakota's drafty William Langer to West Virginia's drafty Harley Kilgore. Few revisions in labor-management law are likely to come out of the 84th, since North Carolina's Graham Barden, a staunch Taft-Hartley man, will be chairman of the House Labor Committee. And there is little chance of anyone pushing tax reduction past Virginia's Senator Byrd...
...front of the Detroit Lions, the best professional football team in the business. Behind his own goal line to punt, just a few minutes later, Colt Quarterback Cotton Davidson got a glimpse of the whole Detroit line bearing down on him, fumbled the pass from center, watched Lion Guard Harley Sewell drop on the ball for a touchdown. After that the Colts and the crowd did not get a chance to forget that the Lions are champions of the National Football League...
Curtice's first decision was to "make a car to sell at lower cost"; his second was to get Harley Earl, who was driving a Cadillac at the time, to design a Buick "you would like to drive." The result was a new, light and cheap Special. As the new car was being readied for production, Curtice swung around the country getting to know his harried dealers, talking over their problems and boosting morale. On many a trip, he took his wife and even his mother, who played poker with Curtice and his associates between stops...