Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brooklyn mob handled executions for the chieftains of the underworld. Some victims went into the Hudson in concrete kimonos. Some were buried in quicklime in a Lyndhurst, NJ. chicken yard that the boys used as a private cemetery. In all, Al was credited with 63 corpses during this phase of his career. He never paid a day in jail for them. Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles sang about Murder Inc., in 1940, but Reles, though locked in a Coney Island hotel room and guarded by cops, somehow managed to fall out the window and kill himself before Brooklyn Prosecutor Bill...
...braintruster of the Mendes-France regime. To a six-month volunteer stint in 1956 as an active reserve officer in Algeria, he brought a young man's sharp nose for injustice and strong palate for raw truths. By his evidence, the Algerian fiasco seems to have entered the phase where a kind of Gresham's law of superheated nationalism applies-the fanatics drive out the moderates...
...established. Many small investors bought stock. The big stockholders, who exercised control, robbed the mills by overcharging for raw cotton they sold to the mills and underpaying for finished textiles they bought back from the mills. Not only that, said Ebtehaj, but the conditions of labor recalled the early phase of the Industrial Revolution. "There was child labor working twelve to 14 hours a day for 15? and nonpayment of workers' health-insurance premiums−or any taxes, for that matter." Though the Iranian government has since moved to prevent the recurrence of such abuses, Ebtehaj conceded wistfully that...
...Eliot House tower was designated point of origin, and the players then began the next phase of the game, which consists of shivering and rubbing one's hands together...
Although construction plans have not yet been finished, work is going on in what Teele described as "phase one"--a rough outline--of development of the Holyoke-Mt. Auburn-Dunster-Mass. Ave. block. Administrative offices and a Health Center for both undergraduates and graduates are to be built in that area...