Word: mourning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bellboys, after a disappointing season, face Pierson without the services of quarterback Bob Woodruff, a fine passer and clever ball handler, who broke his rib in Monday's Kirkland game. Lowell needn't mourn too much, however, because the Pierson Slaves' only claim to fame is five straight losses, and ten injuries in their first game
...store "until the Indians got back in first place," Exhibitionist Charley Lupica (TIME, Aug. 19) was invited down last week by Bill Veeck, exhibitionist president of the Cleveland baseball club. In the mathematics of the 1949 pennant race, the Indians, World Series winners a year ago, were dead. To mourn the sad occasion, Veeck, crowned with a silk hat but still without a tie (he never wears one), drove a horse-drawn hearse into Municipal Stadium with all the Indians trailing along as pallbearers and mourners. They buried last year's pennant beneath a cardboard tombstone back...
Black-bordered and six-feet high, Willie's photograph hung above the stage in the vast Manhattan Center, where Willie lay in state. Beneath it was the sentence: "We mourn our loss." Four thousand of his union brothers & sisters crowded into the high-vaulted auditorium for the service. Outside 20,000 more heard the impassioned voice of Union President David Dubinsky exhort the mourners: "Little did we think that in 1949 we would have to sacrifice a man. What a mistake that employer made! This union will not permit it, no matter what the police department or the district...
...paid much attention to Boyd's unhappy situation. But last week everyone sat up. Without warning, Lewis ordered some 470,000 coal miners east of the Mississippi River to quit work for two weeks to "mourn the unnecessary slaughter of 55,115 men killed and injured in the calendar year, 1948, during Boyd's incumbency of his usurped office . . . Concurrently," ordered Lewis, "the mine workers will pray for relief . . . [and the ousting] of an ignorant and incompetent Boyd." The mourning period put out of work an additional 69,000 employees of coal-carrying eastern railways...
Ranking Government officials, who had left Harry Truman to mourn alone at what they thought would be his own wake, now scrambled for places at the trainside. Outwardly, at least, the President was forgiving & forgetting. He even had a smile for South Carolina's Senator Olin D. Johnston, a pioneer of the Southern civil rights revolt, who said he voted for the President...