Word: prefixes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thus farthest removed progeny of a robber baron. After acquiring a Swiss governess and later a secondary school education in Paris, our critic purchases four pin-stripe suits of recognized quality (perhaps also a pipe), adopts his middle name for use colloquially (reserving his first initial as a prefix to his universally respected signature), and enters Harvard. Once here, he soon verses himself in Henry James, and obtains a lock of hair from the cranium of F. L. Seidel, himself a great Advocate critic a couple of years ago, a man than which there was no meaner Martini mixer. Experience...
...Only a prefix away from the international union's presidency, Vice President Hoffa, 44, controls a mighty voting force which he has assembled through the years by tirelessly reaching out from his Detroit headquarters into every accessible Teamster domain, tirelessly wooing business agents and local leaders, establishing a machine which owes allegiance only to Hoffa. He maintained it by virtue of his famed reputation as a tough negotiator of union contracts and a self-styled protector of the ranks. While conspiring with hoods, he has won the confidence of businessmen and has even assumed a stance of labor statesmanship...
...where more than 100 newsmen converged, segregationists charged at reporters, flinging stones and brandishing clubs to block coverage of their rallies. When the Knoxville Journal's Bill Anderson tried to get into a mass meeting unobtrusively, six men beat him up; he had been given away by the prefix number on his automobile license plate, marking him as an '"outsider" from adjoining Knox County...
...natives who came upon a deserted railway tank car near Durban last week recognized the lettering "alcohol" on the car, but the prefix "methyl" meant nothing to them. Agog with the prospect of a gay weekend, they drained off 22 gallons of methyl alcohol still in the bottom of the tank and carried it off in a big black drum to be mixed into home brew. But first they decided to have a quick taste all around...
CICCU believers deny that they are literalists or anything but plain Christians. "We simply uphold the fundamental, orthodox beliefs of the church. In short, we believe in the Apostles' Creed. We do not prefix it with a 'maybe'" says CICCU's president...