Word: leash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dickinson Letts lifted his own injunction barring Hoffa from taking office as Teamster president. At the Teamsters' marble-and-glass palace in Washington, Jimmy's secretary promptly started greeting telephone callers with a cheery "President Hoffa's office." But Hoffa was a president on a leash, and the other end was held by Judge Letts...
...Enger rises to become the "imported delicacies" king of U.S. grocery-dom, he drags others with him on a golden leash. For the sister who cannot act he builds a theater. The brother who cannot paint is sent to Paris to daub away, and the brother who likes boogie-woogie is made to play Bach. Meanwhile, he nurses an albatross complex about the economic deadweights he has to carry...
...Well," said 82-year-old Carl Gustav Jung in Zurich last week as a tiny microphone was fastened around his neck and a TV camera was wheeled into place, "this is the first time anyone ever had me on a leash." Then, his white head wreathed in tobacco smoke, the famed analyst leaned back to answer questions and explain the theories that placed him with Freud and Adler in the big three of modern psychology. It was his first experience with TV, and it was for an audience that must have seemed remote indeed. The audience to be convened this...
Friend Missing. In San Bernardino, Calif., C. W. Bumgardner, advertising for his lost dog, said that she carried her own leash, growled at strangers, was good with children, and would "fetch slippers, coffee, pipe and TV log on request...
...sweeping interpretation of an already sweeping decision, U.S. District Judge Luther W. Youngdahl in Washington last week shortened the leash that the Supreme Court recently tied to congressional investigating committees. Taking off from the Supreme Court's ruling in the Watkins case (TIME, July 1), Youngdahl set aside the contempt-of-Congress conviction of the New York Times's Copyreader Seymour Peck, who last year declined to tell a Senate Internal Security subcommittee the names of Reds he had known during the twelve years he was a Communist (he quit the party...