Word: hops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government's emergency defense powers would expire in just five hours. He promised labor some sort of formula for "reasonable adjustments in wages." It turned out, a few days later, to be a plan to allow the nation's 15 million union men to hop on the escalator system, their pay rising as the cost of living does...
...advantage over Husky see Dick Sheldon in the first two innings. In the top of the first, walks to Ed Foynes, Johnny White, and Akillian, and a single by Russ Johnson produced two runs. Tom Cavanaugh led off the second with a drive to center that took a bad hop and went for a triple. Chuck Wade singled Cavanaugh home...
Saturday night, just as the Jubilee hop was beginning to get under way, I was ploughing my way through old drunks and quarrelsome sailors to 30 Stuart Street, the headquarters of the local Socialist Workers' Party (Trotskyist). Saturday marked the S. W. P. May Day celebration, and festivities were to include a talk by Comrade Weiss...
Whether or not you have a car, picnics are available to all. People who are inclined to hop on a bicycle on a nice Spring day can be advised to peddle along until they get tired and then just stop. If a farmer should interfere, show him your bicycle, your lunch and your date. If you present them all in an attractive enough manner, chances are that he will invite you to stay, perhaps even tour the farm. They are chances, of course...
...actors disqualified themselves at once-one by shying at the klieg lights, the other by "freezing," and "refusing to take direction." Then the remaining candidates went into the big test. Chief items: to retrieve bananas from chandeliers, walk through a maze of ash trays, drinking glasses, tables and boxes, hop into a pool (most chimps dread water), kiss several actors and actresses (Jungle Jim scripts call for frequent bussing of Weissmuller). The winner was an ape without any theatrical experience-a female chimp named Peggy who had led a quiet life in the San Fernando Valley as the family...