Word: raps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went on trial for the dynamiting in 1955, a tough, aggressive Tribune reporter named J. Harold Brislin interviewed him and wrote a story after his conviction asking: "Will Bradshaw talk?" Four months later, out on bail and embittered by the way his union pals had let him take the rap, Paul Bradshaw decided at last to talk-to Harold Brislin...
...that point the details were filled in by Witness Paul Bradshaw, Teamsters ex-steward who decided to sing after taking the rap for what was to happen next to Pozusek. Bradshaw testified that he and some other union goons were instructed by Carpenters' Business Agent Joe Bartell to go over to the Pozusek project 'and "saw the joists to the breaking point-not to saw all the way through." Bartell explained that "nine -times out of ten, he [Pozusek] will never notice it, and when the home is built and the people move in, the thing will collapse...
Until he landed in prison on a two-to three-year rap for passing a bad check, John Corpier, 32, thought of himself as "a pretty worthless fellow." The son of a Texas dirt farmer, he left school after the eighth grade, worked at a prewar Civilian Conservation Corps camp until he joined the Air Force at 17. Though he made a respectable war record as a B-17 waist gunner in Europe, he never seemed able to settle down once he had left the service. He worked at radio and TV repair jobs in Alaska, Seattle and Palo Alto...
Nikita Khrushchev told the Western powers to keep their hands off the Communist world, particularly East Germany lest it become necessary to "rap your knuckles...
...warn the capitalist countries, do not joke with us, do not try to test us like you did in Hungary with the putsch. You think of doing it, not only in Hungary, but also maybe in East Germany. Be careful. We are not saints and if necessary we will rap your knuckles...