Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proletarian painters of the 1930s. His canvases were packed with demonstrators, motherless waifs and starving victims of capitalist greed. In his milder moods, he turned out farm scenes in the best Midwestern tradition, with bright, theatrical coloring. Said Joe Jones, simply and violently: "I want to paint things that knock holes in walls...
...Republic Steel's Canton, Ohio plant, when a disgruntled worker was told to hurry, he snapped back: "Why should I knock myself out for Republic? They make $75 out of every billet of steel and I get nothing." His foreman, Chris Cutropia, who was both forewarned and forearmed, took the worker aside, and convinced the griper that the company would be lucky to make 75? a billet. Reporting the incident to his superiors, Foreman Cutropia added: "Three months ago I wouldn't have been able to say anything...
Paris still wears its crown as queen of fashion, though in recent years others have tried to knock it off. But no one ever challenged Parisian dressmakers' sovereignty over Parisians themselves-until last week. At the Printemps department store, a sort of French Macy's, Parisian women who used to snigger at British "tow sack" styles were causing a mild riot, buying English dresses almost as fast as they could be shipped in, despite a 52% French duty. The wool dresses were ordinary, low-priced utility numbers that could be bought off the peg in modest shops...
French didn't get there in time. He is shown in the fourth picture behind Insalaco as Springfield end Dave Ritter (82) prepares to knock safety man Red Wylie (only helmet visible) away from the carrier. In the last picture Insalaco is out in the clear...
...always more pleasant to boost than to knock, and it would be nice to be able to say that the performance against Springfield "marked a definite turn in Crimson grid fortunes." Nice, perhaps, but not true, for the Harvard team still shows many weaknesses, some of which may be erased, in time...