Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unanimous decision, but the crowd booed him from habit just the same. Said a plaintive LaMotta next day: "I know the fans don't like me because of my poor fights with Billy Fox and Robert Villemain. But I'm turning over a new leaf. I've got a psychologist, and he's advising me how to go about getting popular...
...Bright Leaf (Warner) tells the story of the rise of the cigarette, but it is a movie that is neither firm nor fully packed. Laid in North Carolina in the 18905, and based on Foster Fitz-Simons' historical novel, it leans heavily on such standbys as the rakehell hero (Gary Cooper), the bosomy belle of the Old South (Patricia Neal) and the brazen hussy (Lauren Bacall), who is presented as the madam of what is delicately described as a "boardinghouse for ladies...
Dewey turned the matter over to his senate leader, brisk, pugnacious Art Wicks. Then, taking a leaf from Harry Truman's successful book, Dewey proclaimed that the people of New York were going to have rent control even if he had to call a special session...
...Communist press jeered: BALDHEAD GOING BACK TO THRONE. In New York City, where he has been convalescing from his stomach operation for almost three months, Acting President Li Tsung-jen received reporters on a windswept terrace in the Bronx. While Madame Li scuffed in annoyance at an occasional leaf (see cut), Li denounced Chiang as a "dictator" and "usurper," doughtily vowed he would "return to crush this movement," but failed to explain when or how. Then he boarded a train for Washington to eat a hearty lunch with President Truman. Just before he left New York, Li had a cablegram...
After missing one game, Broda skated back into the nets to the greatest ovation ever given an athlete in Maple Leaf Gardens. Injured Ted ("Teeder") Kennedy, captain and star center, swung back into harness and the Leafs roared through their next 19 games with only two defeats, four ties. They were playing the kind of he-man hockey that Smythe and Toronto fans liked. Said he, crisply: "We'll outbump or outskate any team in the league. When other; teams are hitting with 25-lb. sledge hammers, we're hitting with 100-lb. sledge hammers...