Word: pints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arthritis, heart disease and old age. Though Bushman managed to pull himself feebly up to his perch after hours of lying inert, they thought he was dying. The Chicago newspapers sent reporters hurrying out to stand a death watch. When Bushman, who was refusing to eat, took a pint of cream containing a stimulant, the Chicago Tribune ran a black, eight-column Page One bannerline: BUSHMAN GIVEN DIGITALIS. The Tribune could have done no more for a President-at least for a Democratic President...
...underworld boss who values his reputation for homicide in the Chicago of 1928, Douglas is a softie who puts his victims out of circulation by imprisoning them comfortably in his cellar. He falls for genteel Governess Jean Peters ("a dame with class"), persuades her to take charge of a pint-sized guttersnipe whom he forces to pose as his son. Jean turns out to be an aspiring singer who can wiggle her assets on a nightclub floor-and switch right back to being as prim as Little Red Riding Hood. Douglas' problem: to go straight for her sake without...
...Down. The fellow who had the most fun was the winner, pint-sized (5 ft. 31 in., 135 Ibs.) August Nigl, a 33-year-old sheet metal worker of Oceanside, N.Y. Out of his savings, he had put up $400 for his black and yellow hull, Forever Amber. His Evinrude 50 h.p. engine cost another $650. His spare time all year was spent tinkering with his engine, polishing the hull, working in endless tryouts...
...three days the hearings went on, behind closed doors in the C.I.O.'s limestone headquarters on Jackson Place, which looks out on the garden of Blair House (Harry Truman's bedroom is not much more than 50 feet away). William Steinberg, president of the pint-sized American Radio Association, was the prosecutor, and three C.I.O. union officers the judges. Bridges, accompanied by a gaudily shirted Hawaiian aide, argued back that all the charges were red herrings. Since a San Francisco federal jury had already decided that fiery Harry Bridges was a Communist, there seemed little doubt about...
...Third Man. The argument began around 1935 when imperious, pint-sized David Robertson, boss of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen,* woke up to a new fact of industrial life. Oil-burning diesel engines, which railroads were using in increasing numbers, were being operated with only one man, an engineer. A lot of firemen were going to be out of work. Robertson demanded that a fireman be put on every diesel (to tend no fires, but to make an occasional check in the engine room, keep an eye on gauges, and help the engineer look out the window...