Word: hassock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...C.I.O.'s United Furniture Workers of America were in an uproar. Hassock-shaped Morris Muster, overstuffed (215 lbs.) U.F.W.A. president, had quit in disgust after nine years in the union. Two days later a Southern district president followed him out. Said Muster, 20,000 members were in open revolt. Their reason: U.F.W.A. had been taken over by its Communist faction; the new executive board was dominated by Stalinists...
...cold), named all the trees and plants and flowers. At 5 o'clock, as dusk settled over the low Catskills, the five visitors, the President, his mother, Mr. Summerlin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt III, 2, gathered for tea and cocktails. Minute, rompered Franklin Roosevelt III sat on a hassock and ate a cookie like a good boy. His great-grandmother said sadly: "His name is Franklin Delano Roosevelt the Third, but everybody calls him Joe." Joe acted like a little gentleman until his nurse came to take him away. Then he kicked like hell...
...Buckley, who capably held down the initial hassock on his Freshman nine last year, has already been switched over from second base to take Tully's post and Dick Merrill has taken over the duties on second. The hole in the batting order caused by his absence is not as easily filled as the first base post, however, and according to Coach Stahl the offensive power of the team will be considerably less without the red-headed junior...
...undergraduate lineup will include Ed Buckley at the initial sack, Jim Lynch at the keystone hassock, Freddy Keyes at short and Gil Whittemore on third, while Les Pitchford, Lee Hartstone, and Gene Levett will patrol the outfield...