Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other names and other activities. As Hans Berger he wrote articles for the Daily Worker. As Julius Eisman he made frequent visits to the Manhattan offices of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee-a Communist front organization which had duped Bennett Cerf, Charles BOyer, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and many another big name into becoming its sponsors. The Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee gave him monthly checks for $150. By means of the party grapevine, he was in touch with Samuel Kogan, alias Carr, a member of Canada's Communist atomic spy ring...
...work on details of interior furnishing, a joint student-faculty committee is planning the layout of a projected series of smoking, browsing, and conversation rooms...
...come. He tweedle-eedled a little on the treble, and twoodle-oodled some on the bass. . . . All of a sudden, old Ruby changed his tune. . . . He lit into them keys like a thousand of brick. He give 'em no rest, day or night. He set every living joint in me agoing, and not being able to stand it no longer, I jumped spang into my seat and jest hollered: 'Go it, my Rube!' Every blamed man, woman and child in the house riz on me, and shouted...
Baseball, after passing through its only great scandal in 1919, appointed the late Kennesaw Mountain Landis as its all-powerful "czar," and for two decades his iron hand kept baseball's escutcheon spotless. Now would seem an appropriate time for all professional sports to choose together a joint ruling committee with similar vast regulatory powers, and thus aid in keeping the final outcome of all sporting events in doubt for all the spectators...
...good sense of the joint committee considering the bill and the all out opposition of an impressive array of academic authorities combined to result in a recommendation that the bill be deferred to the next session. This action amounts to rejection of the proposal--at least for the present. But the idea of taxing its colleges is one that has always had a strong appeal for certain Massachusetts politicians, both state and local. That such a bill as the one which seems safely laid away could even be seriously entertained should serve to keep Massachusetts colleges and the majority...