Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pittsburgh some years ago went hardboiled, sleek-haired Nick Stirone...
There were tall ones and short ones in the crowd and weights ranged all the way from a hefty 235 pounds down to a bare 125. The two-and-a-half man coaching staff consisting of Chief Boston and Nick Mellen (Al Kevorkian, another assistant, is wavering on the military brink) at times was almost lost in the crowd and naturally it was impossible to make any accurate evaluation of the squad's actual potentialities...
Coach Boston, three year Varsity quarterback, begins his second season of coaching at his alma mater with high hopes of bettering the record of last year's squad. Assisted with the line work by Nick Mellen, guard on 1938's Harvard eleven and Jayvee line coach last season, Boston expects to mold a well-balanced aggregation from unknown material. Al Kevorkian of '37 Harvard and All-Star fame will fill the third coaching post...
...teamsters and other brother unions began sidling up to the battle line, as C.I.O. shouted gleefully for a chance to run the busses and end the tie-up, as the city faced the prospect of new strikes and a bloody war, Mayor Jeffries, in time's nick, won a compromise. A.F. of L. agreed to a system-wide election in the D.S.R. If A.F. of L. won, the mayor promised to grant exclusive bargaining rights and exclusive use of bulletin boards, even though he still questioned the legality of it. Citizens and defense officials took a deep breath...
...Macey" - that was his factory nick name - did well at his job; they all thought a lot of him, and as one of the workers told him when he left, he might one day even have charge of a floor. But the pull of England was strong, and that of poetry was stronger. Before he left he had his photograph made (see cut) and gave one to each of his friends. He also got rid of most of his manuscripts. "These, when torn up, filled a large bucket, weighed astonishingly, and burned with a clear flame...