Word: mugged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students selling milk and doughnuts earn from $600 to $900 a year. The earnings for students in the Beer Mug and Banner Agency, the Birthday Cake Agency, the Watson Rink Refreshment Agency, and the Blotter Agency are about the same. The Student Linen Agency and one or two others, are even more rewarding...
Maier, so ill these days that he has to hold his beer mug in both shaky hands, lost much of his following last year when the Free Democrats split and Maier's wing left the Adenauer coalition. His campaign is tired and spiritless, and Adenauer campaign strategists doubt that Maier and his Free Democrats will even poll the necessary 5% of the total ballot to stay on the rolls. His chief issue is that an Adenauer victory would make twelve Adenauer years in power and pave the way for a one-party state; it is not necessarily...
Coffee-Break Cup. For the busy executive, whose morning cup of coffee at the office often gets cold before he can drink it, Emson Corp. put on sale an insulated, double-walled aluminum mug with a cap that works like a Thermos, keeps liquids hot for hours. Price...
...identifying with the working classes, it is a "mug's game." Nor do Amis and Co. propose to rally round their presumed benefactors, the Socialists, for whose triumph their predecessors fought so hard: "The Welfare State, indeed, is notoriously unpopular with intellectuals. It was all very well to press for higher working-class wages in the old days, but now-why, some of them are actually better off than we are ourselves...
Death Revealed. Johnny Torrio, 75, compact (5 ft. 5 in.), button-eyed dean of Chicago's Prohibition-era gang leaders, (e.g., Dion O'Bannion, Hymie Weiss) who brought Al ("Scarface") Capone from Brooklyn as a $75-a-week mug, tutored him, later (1925) bequeathed him his underworld empire and title of Public Enemy No. 1; of a heart attack; on April 16, in Brooklyn. Dapper Torrio, a topnotch organizer, executive and marksman (tagged by colleagues as "Terrible Johnny" long before police got anything on him), joined Big Jim Colosimo in Chicago as chief triggerman in 1910, gathered...