Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister got up as casually as a man about to give his trousers a hitch. "I should like to make a statement on the winding up of [Parliament's] business," he said. As William Lyon Mackenzie King droned on, no one paid much attention. Then, suddenly, the Prime Minister stopped droning. Crisply, he read an announcement: "The Governor General ... is willing to approve ... a general election on June...
Married. James ("Jimmy") Dunn, 43, now taking a second hitch at cinema stardom in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; and Edna Rush, 37, radio singer (Philadelphia's "Miss Television" of 1931); he for the third time, she for the second; in Philadelphia. Bridal attendant: A Tree's Author Betty Smith...
...matter how it was taken, penicillin promptly turned up in the blood. When unprotected penicillin was given to twelve pneumonia patients, they got well just as fast as they would have on injections. Only hitch: dosage must be five times the amount required when the drug is administered by injection. But WPB announced last week that there will soon be plenty of penicillin for everybody...
...lame back (slipped vertebra) needed two weeks of rest in every six. His hook off the tee continually landed him in tall grass, behind trees. Yet crowd-drawing, drawling Sammy had somehow managed to stand the winter circuit troupe on its par-cracking ear. Ever since his 26-month hitch in the Navy, the once temperamental Samuel Jackson Snead had played with a brand new and compelling confidence...
...Center George Mikan took the scoring honors over Oklahoma A. & M.'s 7-ft. Bob Kurland (TIME, Dec. 25), as DePaul hung up its 15th victory (48-to-46) against one defeat. ¶ Well-balanced Iowa (won 12, lost 1), and its Wilkinson brothers took another hitch on the Big Ten title by trimming Indiana...