Word: nails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the White Sox have power and speed to spare, Richards has the problem of a shaky pitching staff. His solution: the now-famous switch maneuver against Boston, and a constant juggling, prodding and pushing of his other players. Richards' hustling White Sox, a tooth & nail team, is already surefire at the gate (home attendance is up 29%). For White Sox fans, with only six first-division teams in 30 years, it's high time. Chicago's last American League pennant winner: the infamous Black...
...hearings began, nail-biting wire-service men based their first bulletins and new leads on snippets of information from the caucus room's white-haired Doorkeeper Gus Cook-mostly reports on who was talking and how many times MacArthur had lighted his pipe. But just 50 minutes later, newsmen got a pleasant surprise: the first pages of the censored transcript began to come through. Stenographers sitting in on the hearing delivered their batches of copy to the censor, Vice Admiral Arthur C. Davis. Davis blocked out whatever seemed to compromise military security, passed them along to two Ditto operators...
Betting at the fights, say the authorities, runs to seven figures a year and purses of $5,000 are common. At a raid in El Centre last year, S.P.C.A. men found one bookie stuffing the stake on a single) bout into a 50-lb. nail keg and ramming the overflow down into the keg with his foot...
Sometimes, aided by TIME Correspondents from other cities, he tied the testimony to other evidence on country-wide crime organizations. He outlined the legal steps needed to nail down perjury, contempt and deportation charges. He also sketched from memory the sordid story of Teapot Dome and other great congressional investigations from the past...
...built with one mission: to hunt and destroy other submarines. Only a little more than half as big as the Navy's fleet-type sub, the K-i's job is to lie in ambush along enemy submarine lanes, spot its prey with sonar gear, then nail the enemy with homing torpedoes equipped with electronic ears. It is one answer to the threat of Russia's big and still growing underwater fleet. Said Rear Admiral C. B. Momsen, veteran submariner: "I can say from my own experience that there is no foe that strikes more terror...