Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failure of Mitchell's effort left the Administration no choice but to use its power under the Taft-Hartley law. It was a solution that pleased nobody. Dave McDonald vowed to fight the injunction proceedings in the courts, arguing that the steel strike has not yet endangered the national health or safety, the only basis on which the law permits an injunction to be issued. Industry had precious little to gain from the use of Taft-Hartley either; management could hardly expect to get topflight production out of the angry workers ordered back to their jobs...
Truckdriver Poe, his left leg caught in the cab, cried to rescuers: "Don't let me die this way! Thank God you're here! Oh my God! Thank God you're here! Help me! Save me!" With crowbars and wrenches, emergency crews got Poe free, sent him on to a hospital with four badly burned coeds. The charred bodies of Professor Sixta and nine girls were sent to the morgue...
American 215, be advised that Cessna 163 is being flown by a student pilot on his first cross-country flight. He advises us that he has only one hour and five minutes of fuel left...
...historical imagination that have enabled him to adjust cheerfully to the limits of Britain's present-day power, and to work to make his country the "senior junior partner in the Western alliance." And domestically Macmillan is an unabashed pragmatist who looks to the right, borrows from the left, and walks grandly through the middle in the immemorial British tradition...
Though Roden paid off his tax debts within a year, he could not quit. For more than six years he averaged a raid a week, stealing in all some 400 cattle, worth $90,000. Even after giving Mischker his cut, Roden had enough left over to finance his roulette losses and to set up a beauty parlor for his girl friend, Widow Irmgard Wakulenko...