Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Union leaders heard that Gallagher was about to render a rather favorable decision. That would never do. The union's Communist leadership had been losing ground with the non-Communist rank & file. A peaceful settlement might undermine the militancy of the miners-and their leaders' position. They threatened to strike unless Gallagher granted all their demands. Considering this threat to be blackmail, Gallagher refused to hand down any decision until the strike threat was withdrawn...
...entering a ring. If they got any more, the bulls, diabolically quick to learn, would have a fatal advantage over a bullfighter. Even in a tienta, young bulls are allowed to make no more than three or four charges at the picador. On the other hand, heifers, which will never get a chance at a torero, are worked to exhaustion to study theif future value as mothers of fighting sons...
Aside from physical development, the breeders strive for those elusive and never-certain qualities summed up in the word bravo-comprised not of treacherous bloodlust, nor of fear, but chiefly of noble anger...
Cinemogul Darryl Zanuck, off to the Riviera, looked forward to some hobnobbing with the international set. "I like them," he told a columnist. "They don't talk show business ... In fact, most of them never saw a movie and think a movie is something you see through a peep glass after you put a dime in the slot...
...Munich denazification court, Photographer Heinrich Hoffman, who brought Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun together, testified that the Fiihrer's relations with Eva were platonic to the end. Said Hoffman: "Eva never was alone when she met Herr Hitler in the evening. In this respect, Herr Hitler was very infantile...