Word: musclemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force lieutenant had heaved the 16-lb. shot 61 ft. 5¼ in., breaking the indoor and outdoor records. Earlier, the New York Athletic Club's Bob Backus had flung the 35-lb., triangular-handled weight 63 ft. 10½ in., another record and another reminder that U.S. musclemen will be hard to match in next fall's Olympics...
...first Russo-American athletic contest since the end of World War II gave six U.S. musclemen of assorted sizes a chance to flex their biceps for a friendly and admiring audience. Appropriately enough, it was Heavyweight Paul Anderson who made the biggest hit. The 22-year-old titan from Toccoa. Ga. looked for all the world like a living caricature of Humphrey Pennyworth, the comic-strip strongman. Here in the flesh was the giant of a capitalist fairy tale. Almost as wide as he is high (5 ft. 10 in., 340 Ibs.), Anderson toyed with the big bar bells...
Breaking attendance records at a Times Square nightclub in an act that features nine musclemen in loincloths, Mae West, 61, pronounced herself in "puffect" health: "I keep myself in puffect shape. I get lots of exercise-in my own way-and I walk every day . . . Knolls, you know, small knolls, they're very good for walking. Build up your muscles, going up and down the knolls . . . [My] teeth are so puffect that everybody thinks they're false. Do you know why they're puffect? 'Cause I take care of them. I brush...
...I.L.A. ran low on money. Thousands of longshoremen, once held in complete subjection by gun-toting musclemen, began openly attending A.F.L. meetings. But even so, A.F.L. President George Meany expected that his new union would be completely snowed under last week when the NLRB held an election to name a bargaining agent for the New York and New Jersey piers...
...from the U.S. Today tonnage has slumped to 15%. Principal reason: the New York waterfront is the realm of hoods and racketeers, where a payoff is as casual as a Christmas card, where whole truckloads of merchandise can vanish, where watchmen never make an arrest, and where mobsters recruit musclemen who are still serving time in Sing Sing...