Word: hides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said one ex-goon, reminiscing last week about the teamsters' battles to contain Harry Bridges' inland march into uptown Seattle warehouses: "We always used indoor bats with about four inches sawed off so we could hide them in the sleeves of our coats. We had to use bats because the longshoremen fought with their cargo hooks.* Sailors used a two-foot length of tracer chain, or wrapped window-sash chain around their fists...
...party leader is the realist who accepts people as they are and is willing to wear red gloves to hide the blood on his hands if that will advance the party cause...
...hand-picked Patton because "for certain types of action [he] was the outstanding soldier our country has produced ..." Patton knew that Ike had saved his hide more than once, wrote to him after the famous soldier-slapping incident: "I am at a loss to find words with which to express my chagrin and grief at having given you, a man to whom I owe everything and for whom I would gladly lay down my life, cause to be displeased with...
...Kuhn is philosophical about his past struggles: "I got my beatings early and I have an awfully tough hide. The fact is I've been solvent for only two or three years, but now they buy my pictures as an investment. It's grotesque. I even have to sell my stuff on installments so the Government won't get all the money. That's legal, you know. A Virginia fellow saw a reproduction of a picture of mine and he bought it on the phone for $10,000. But I'm quittin' anyway...
Promptly at 6, at the sound of a bell, retail buyers crowded into the slime-spattered aisles. Booted and aproned wholesalers waved samples in their faces, and shouted sales to clerks in a code gibberish by which they hoped to hide prices from competitors. By 11 a.m., nearly a million pounds of seafood had been sold. In this business-as-usual way, the biggest fish market in the world passed a historic milestone last week: it was 100 years...