Word: railings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor. FOR: the President's 1946 request for power to draft rail strikers into the Army. AGAINST (with Truman): Taft-Hartley Act, Case anti-strike bill...
Strategic Zones. The plan, billed as "the best defense of the workers' interests against possible capitalist reaction," listed as "strategic zones" all rail and bus stations, ports, communications centers, power plants, food warehouses, waterworks, public markets, government offices, union headquarters, theaters and stadiums. Said its Article Four: "We do not mean to meet the enemy in open fight but to ... neutralize him by attacking where he is weakest...
...years after Hoppe's feat, Masako Katsura, who grew up in a suburban Tokyo billiard parlor run by her brother-in-law, won the Japanese women's straight-rail championship. Then 16, she soon caught the eye of Kinrey Matsuyama, the Japanese Hoppe, who was runner-up, on his last U.S. visit in 1936, for the three-cushion title. Contrary to the slanderous old saw, Masako's proficiency at billiards seemed to Matsuyama a sign of anything but a misspent youth. Coached by him to perfection in the basic and fancy three-cushion shots (see cut), Masako...
Astronomical Run. Billiards' elite have kept themselves exclusive by devising tougher games every time too many players mastered the sport's simpler forms. In elementary straight-rail billiards, the cue ball must merely hit the two object balls (a rule that experts exploit by "position play," i.e., keeping the balls clicking around in monotonous little triangles). In balkline billiards, the next step up, the table is marked off in areas from which, for a player to go on scoring, at least one object ball must be driven within one or two shots...
...yellow watches," hunting-case type, and gold-filled (value of the gold: 27?) was refused by a local merchant, Sears got them for $12 apiece and sold them for $14. In six months Sears, then 22, cleared $5,000, moved to Minneapolis and then on to the rail center.of Chicago, and started a mail-order business...