Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laugh, liked to tell stories on himself. Once, in a game with Princeton, the referee penalized Yale ten yards because Hickman was coaching from the sidelines. "I ran after him; the coach recounted, "and shouted. 'Why, you dumb so-and-so, you don't even know that the penalty for [that] is 15 yards!' The referee looked at me scornfully and said, 'For the kind of coaching you're doing, it's only ten.' " Born in Johnson City, Tenn., Herman Hickman was an All-America guard at the University of Tennessee, a professional...
Last week a House Government Operations subcommittee, investigating some of these nickel deals, wanted to know particularly why the U.S. cannot cut its nickel purchases and get out of the nickel business by selling its $87 million Nicaro nickel plant in eastern Cuba (current annual production: 52 million lbs., about 11% of the free world's supply...
...Washington and raised many an eyebrow in business circles. He hired an ex-FBI investigator to question Beynon's old friends and associates about his private life as far back as 1926. Beynon testified that the inquisitor asked his friends such questions as "I'd like to know how Mr. Beynon made his money." Williams also checked police records on Beynon, but all he could dig up was a traffic violation. Explained Williams: "It's normal business practice for me to find out all I can about the man I'm dealing with." Yet he admitted...
...need. Conventionally, this ominous encounter ends well after a long spell of breath-holding on the part of the reader as well as the parents. But its bitterly ironic aftertaste lies in the fact that the parents' agony is not enough to induce forgiveness for their failure to know their own child. ¶Tho' the Pleasant Life Is Dancing Round tries to show how even exterior happiness may fail to reconcile a brilliant teen-age boy to the tragic quota of life. Loved and even coddled by his suburban parents, he does not ask what...
Though the U.S. was willing to support his stalling strategy, it was the British who balked even at discussing the grim bargain between Brand and his mortal enemies, and tried to hamstring his efforts to reach others. One appalling reason given by Brand: the British did not know where to put the Jews without increasing their quota for admission to Palestine. They also acted on the principle that blackmail is never paid off, that simply nothing can be gained by negotiating with monsters. First the war must be won, argued the British; then others must sweep up the bits...