Word: mite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the word that Ball was out as president and that Krider was in. Sewell Avery let it be known that so far as he was concerned. Lawyer Ball had never got "comfortable" in his retailing job. But Ward employees gossiped that Stu Ball had simply become a mite too independent for the boss's liking. Out with Ball went Ward Treasurer Arthur Cahill, who was replaced by 42-year-old Assistant Controller Howard S. Kambestad. Said new President Krider calmly: "We regard these things as normal here. It goes on all the time...
...might have daunted even hardier men than NBC's executives. It was accomplished by having Milton go offstage while Vice President Alben Barkley came on, to talk about Abraham Lincoln. Howdy Doody was swung into line with a children's newsreel, and The Aldrich Family contributed its mite by devoting one show to a discussion of the basic types of English sentence structure...
...only one winged T play in the game; the rest was all straight and split T. And under Hickman's system you can often tell whether a pass or running play is coming up and where it is going. Herman, from what we saw, tries to combine a mite of single wing power with his T deception; if it's a running play to the right, for example, the right half is a couple of steps closer to the line and the left half draws back a step. This may be a good thing, but you can't prove...
...Charles Pomerantz, 54, an immigrant from Poland who did well in Manhattan's garment industry, switched to the exterminating business because he thought it offered more chance for public service. In 1946, a new disease, Rickettsialpox, broke out in Queens, and Pomerantz tracked down the carrier-a tiny mite carried by mice. In his honor, a new species of flea, found in the Philippines, has now been named Stivalius pomerantzi...
...Mite Strange. In Toledo, Railroad Section Hand James King suddenly went berserk and was arrested as a dangerous lunatic, was released after a doctor extracted the bug that had flown into...