Word: loaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rose to answer the baiting, he projected a conviction that he was sure he was right. Sir Horace Evans, who is also physician to the Queen, urged him repeatedly to take a few days off, but Eden stubbornly drove himself on, taking more and more of the Suez work load himself, sweeping aside any suggestion that he should delegate more work to other Cabinet members. But his way had failed, and the penalties of a botched job were upon...
...early in May when Ellen Moore, 22, a pretty young housewife, headed for the Child Welfare Clinic in the bleak Northumberland mining town of Wallsend. Two months pregnant, she had her 16-month-old firstborn, Paul, in his pram. As a truck carrying a load of tree trunks took a nearby corner, one of the lashings parted. A soft, log struck Mrs. Moore a glancing blow on the head, and she fell unconscious...
...come a long way from the pudgy youngster playing on the muscle beaches of Santa Monica. "He could have been anything he wanted," insists Parry Sr. "He has more determination than four mules." As the time approaches to put away the iron ball and heft the more difficult load of earning a living, both father and son are as sure that Parry Jr. will succeed in business as they were that he would eventually heave the shot past...
...children, Roy rammed his jeep through the iron blind of a locked milk store. British MPs warned him that pillaging was a crime for which he could be shot. "O.K., go ahead and shoot," said Roy. He gave one case of powdered milk to the woman, delivered a jeep load to a hospital...
...virtually untouched until 1950. when a Bethlehem Steel Corp. subsidiary began mining El Pao. The ore traveled by rail to the Orinoco, then by shallow-draft vessel to deep-water Puerto de Hierro (Iron Port). In early 1954, a U.S. Steel Corp. subsidiary, Orinoco Mining Co., sent its first load of Cerro Bolivar ore down the river. Orinoco Mining has spent $230 million on its Cerro Bolivar mine and the installations that go with it: a trim little company town near the base of the mountain; a river port (Puerto Ordaz); 90 miles of railroad; and iSo miles of Orinoco...