Word: hire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ring, he annoys foes with a shuffling, eccentric style that is really no style at all. He is apt to turn on his heel and walk away, drop his gloves or scramble crab-fashion to left & right. When Joe Louis tried recently to hire one of Walcott's old handlers to study Walcott's style, one of Jersey Joe's sparring mates burst out laughing at the idea. He explained: "Why, I've fought a hundred rounds with Walcott and know less about his style now than when I started...
Rivera's fiery colleague, Muralist David Siqueiros, offered a more subtle solution. Hire a Catholic painter, he suggested, to paint a mural alongside Rivera's, with the words "God is omniscient." Nobody in Siqueiros' atheistic, revolutionary crowd would touch it, he promised. The offer went untaken...
...Lucas, who runs Manhattan's Cordon Bleu Restaurant and cooking school, is something of a television sensation. Recently, she had to hire a secretary to handle the mail (900 letters a week after an average program, as many as 1,500 after a particularly tasty-looking dish...
...track, he checks to see what mounts he has. Like every jockey, he has an agent to make his riding engagements. Arcaro's agent, Melvin ("Bones") La Boyne, has an easier time of it than most. Because it costs no more to hire the best jockey (a flat-rate $50 for a winning mount on big tracks,** $25 for a loser), trainers seek out Bones...
...next three months PM staffers, who have already been given severance pay, will be on probation. Their new bosses may hire & fire at will...