Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During Juan Perón's heyday. Argentina's July 9 Independence Day parade in Buenos Aires was little more than a muscle-flexing display of military power marching to the monotonous tune of The Peronista Boys. Last year there was no parade at all; instead, a crowd of angry Roman Catholics marched through the streets shouting anti-Perón slogans and chanting hymns to show their disapproval of the government's feud with the church. Against so dark a background, last week's celebration stood out like a beam of sunlight...
...bookie joints unfurled in the Chicago Loop last week like so many Fourth of July flags. Processing the bets were highly organized wire rooms where the big bookies sat at banks of telephones, raked in a take every dollar as good as the rackets produced in Capone's heyday. All this confirmed the Crime Commission's long-held fear that the town would be opened up shortly after last year's election...
...Baseball's Hall of Fame, often sold batting great (lifetime average: .334) whose famed foot-in-the-bucket stance was the nemesis of Big League pitchers for most of his 21-season career (1924-44); of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. As a Philadelphia outfielder in the heyday of Connie Mack's Athletics, Simmons hit over .300 for eleven straight seasons, copped the American League batting title...
...year paid a $500,000 railroad bill v. $150,000 in 1940. Downtown circus lots big enough for the 26,000-yard oval of the Big Top are either unavailable or exorbitantly expensive in most U.S. cities. For a business whose methods have changed little since its cheap-labor heyday, the cost of moving from town to town has become prohibitive. On top of that, today's children, surfeited with TV tinsel, no longer quicken to the real-life roar of lions, the aerialist's heart-stopping plunge. "Suckers may still be born every minute," epitaphed a circusman...
...cover up their eroding handiwork after a mine is depleted. Under his direction 27 million trees have been planted to replenish the state's dwindling forests. His position on civil rights might give pause to his Southern supporters in the showdown. During the Democrats' two-year heyday in Columbus, Lausche nearly won passage of a Fair Employment Practices Act with enforcement features. Said Lausche in his 1955 message to the legislature : "The decision of the United States Supreme Court requiring the schools of our country to provide equality of teaching services for our children . . . meets with my complete...