Word: loads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...autographed portrait beams from thousands of desks, mantelpieces, and the walls of meeting halls all over the state ("Our little billboards," smiles Kleinberger, who distributes them by the truck-load). Knight's name has become, in the most literal sense, a household word: Los Angeles teenagers, when they say farewell at night, say "governor," not "good night." Running for the governorship last year, he demonstrated his political prowess with a landslide (551,151 votes) victory over Democrat Richard Graves...
...Picton, Ont., Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s President Arthur Bartlett Homer scissored a ribbon one afternoon last week. In the dark waters of the Bay of Quinte at the foot of the cliff, the rust-red lake steamer Powell Stackhouse cast off for Lackawanna, N.Y. with the first load of eastern Ontario iron...
Chauncey stole second, and scored on George MacDonald's bullet to center. Rossano doubled him to third, and Dick Hoffman walked to load the bases. Then John Simourian came through with a drive to right to score MacDonald, keeping the bases filled. Bill Cleary, up for the second time, hit a hard grounder to third, to force Hoffman and end the inning...
Easing Burdens. The answer, said Butler, is yes. "The sheer burden of taxation is far too great. Some further lightening of the load is needed to give industry the spur to be more competitive." With a surplus in the Treasury of more than $1 billion. Butler lightened Britain's heavy tax load for this year by $375 million. His chief tax cuts...
Hastings' two-out single began a four-run spurt. Ned Felton, hitting for Ward, drew a base on balls, Dick Hoffman smacked a double to right center, scoring Hastings and sending Felton to third. John Simourian was intentionally passed, to load the bases. Bill Cleary promptly stepped up and smashed a single off the third baseman's glove, driving in the tying and leading runs...