Word: lone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year, Roe was the last lone operator; four gangsters tried to kidnap him, too. But his luck held. Roe, who habitually packed a pistol, got away, leaving a hoodlum named Leonard ("Fat Lennie") Caifano dead. Roe enjoyed life-he drove a Cadillac, wore $50 neckties, and lived in a flamboyant apartment which boasted a revolving television set and pastel-tinted telephones to match the color scheme of each room...
...parties, I think. I know we made some, and there were some made by our Government." He congratulated the steelworkers on "the friendliest strike I have ever heard of," and told of an incident at McKeesport, Pa., where a foreman ran out of a struck plant and begged the lone picket to call the union hall and get them to send out a striking plumber to deal with some emergency. The picket replied that he could not leave his post untended. The foreman grabbed the picket's sign and marched up & down while the union...
...midnight to comb her grey hair. One stone built into a church carried a strange local legend. A farmer told Mrs. Rudge that the people who built the church brought the pudding stone down from a hill, and three times the devil carried the stone back to its lone hilltop. So the church was built on the hill, and the stone stayed with...
...particularly Lloyd Bridges as the edgy deputy marshal and Katy Jurado as the marshal's fiery ex-girlfriend. Gary Cooper, as the marshal, has one of the outstanding roles of his long acting career: a tired and unheroic gunfighter, doggedly stalking through the desolate streets of Hadleyville, his lone figure casting a long shadow before it as the heat and drama mount relentlessly to the crisis of high noon...
Nevertheless, knowing that Williamson's increase in production to an estimated $24 million a year (12% of all diamond sales) would be a real threat, the cartelists thought it time to get the lone wolf back into the pack. Another rumored reason: the cartel had been pouring capital into gold mines, and might well have been short of cash to support the diamond market in a price break. Sir Ernest Oppenheimer's son Harry flew to Williamson's mine in Tanganyika to lure him back. But Williamson, a diamond-hard bargainer, could not be cracked. So tough...