Word: piers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With the deep-throated blasts from her funnels drowning out the catcalls from striking pickets on the pier, the Queen Elizabeth, world's largest passenger liner, sailed from Southampton last week with a full crew complement of 1,250. With that, the three-week-old wildcat strike of British seamen collapsed. Two days later the strike's organizers ordered their men back to work, and the strike, which had stranded hundreds of U.S. tourists and clogged British ports with merchandise, was over...
...pier-six brawl in Syracuse, N.Y., Carmen Basilio. 28. sharp-featured son of a Canastota. N.Y.. onion farmer, spent twelve rounds trading punches with Welterweight Champion Tony De Marco before he battered the stubborn Bostonian senseless and stumbled off with the title...
...leftover hamburger. Prosecutors badgered him, accused him of covering up bribe offers. Among his managers was Killer Eddie Coco. But Rocky won most of his bouts. In the ring the old street fighter came back. One hot July night in 1947, he knocked out Tony Zale in a celebrated pier-six brawl and won the middleweight championship of the world...
...Cwiklinski sat through a palm-sweating grilling with his bosses and the dreaded U.B. (for Urzad Bezpieczenstwa), Poland's secret police.* On the return trip to New York, the Batory's crew and passengers were in turn grilled by U.S. Government agents, and the eventual loss of pier privileges forced the Poles to give up the transatlantic run. No Communist or proCommunist, Cwiklinski tried to coexist with the Polish satellite regime for the sake of his wife and two children. He gradually became a figurehead on his own ship, with all disciplinary matters handled by secret-police...
Aboard the French liner Ile de France at a Manhattan pier, France's retiring Ambassador to the U.S. Henri Bonnet, 66, whose charm and Gallic wit have entranced Washington for the past nine years, and Mme. Bonnet, a fixture on lists of the world's best-dressed women, were seen off for home amidst the popping of champagne corks. Just before sailing time, Diplomat Bonnet got a sisterly farewell kiss from a longtime family friend, glamorous Grandma Marlene Dietrich. Said he feelingly to his well-wishers: "I thank you for the happiest years in our lives...