Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Picture." But politics was in the picture and all over the place, and doctors were playing it. The Negro doctors who crowded the hotel were delegates to the annual convention of their own National Medical Association; the A.M.A. "observers" and their displays were there to persuade the N.M.A. to hitch itself as a tail to the A.M.A. kite. They failed to tie the knot...
...Wright, who was born in Los Angeles and has spent almost all of his life there (except for a hitch as a U.S. Navy pilot and a TIME correspondent in London) can recall the time when "there was little more than wheatfields beyond Western Avenue." He found that the Los Angeles story was a rediscovery of his hometown. For Ed Rees, a native of Delaware, it was a firsthand discovery. After talking to architects, sociologists, county supervisors, meteorologists, etc. he found that some of his pet theories about...
...with little delay (she had been hostess to plenty of them), so she quickly set about preparing to leave for Europe. She closed "Uplands," her fashionable Foxhall Road mansion, ordered the Mesta mansion at Newport shut up, and moved into Washington's Sulgrave Club. There was one annoying hitch: A shipment of costly fabrics containing materials for the ministerial wardrobe was pilfered en route to Washington, and even the FBI, when called in, couldn't find it. But Perle was not fazed. "It's too hot to think about clothes," said the Minister...
...Portland, Maine. From Sturbridge, Massachusetts, where the Connecticut road ends, to Salisbury, the southern terminus of New Hampshire's new 15 mile paved strip, 150 miles of straggling, second-rate reads are Massachusetts' contribution to the east coast highway system. This month the State Legislature has a chance to hitch together the loose end of that Maine to Manhattan chain. In debating the authorization of a $100,000,000 bond issue, the legislators will also consider a provision for constructing a 90 mile toll turnpike across the state...
Ordinarily, the Statute of Limitations prevents prosecution for a crime six years after it is perpetrated, but the hitch is that the Statute doesn't "run" for time spent outside the state. His Majesty, now in retirement in British Columbia, might yet end his days sticking wads of Blackjack under a cot in Charlestown State Prison...