Word: rears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them leathery farmers in shirtsleeves, who had arrived before dawn (and had been sustained through the humid hours by soft drinks sold by the ladies of the P.T.A. for the benefit of the junior high encyclopedia fund). At precisely 10:40 a.m. there was a rustle at the rear of the gym and a voice rasped: "Push 'em back! Push 'em back!" Behind a wedge of deputies, to the roar of yells, applause and cheers, Louisiana's embattled Governor, Earl Kemp Long, walked waveringly to a chair next to the judge, acknowledged the ovation with a tight...
...years' imprisonment. In prison, where he picked up pin money as a librarian, Fuchs was said to have incurred doubts about Communism. Last week the tall emerald-green gates of Wakefield Prison in northern England swung wide to permit the departure of a black Morris sedan. In the rear seat, together with a police officer and a picnic hamper, sat Klaus Fuchs, at 48 a scrawny, balding man who blinked through thick-lensed, steel-rimmed prison glasses, set free after serving 9½ years, with time off for good conduct...
...their court-martial last week, Shennan and Moheiddin were represented by five attorneys, including the president of the Sudan Bar Association. The prosecutor, acknowledging the deep Sudanese desire for reforms, said that "the Sudanese nation is still at the rear of the caravan" of progress. But there wars pointed evidence that the two had plotted against the Abboud regime. Witnesses testified that Shennan told an army captain in, of all unlikely places, the public reading room of Khartoum's Sudanese Cultural Center that "nobody believes there has been a revolution in this country, not even we, the members...
...guns in the top turret and two 20-mm. guns in the nose? Replied Pilot Mayer: The guns were inoperative. Why? Well - because of a lack of spare parts, which "are very difficult to get." Would the Navy make gun parts available for future hazardous missions? Answered Rear Admiral Frederic Stanton Withington, 57, U.S. naval commander in Japan: "I will sure do my best...
...case grew out of a United Auto Workers' strike at Ford's Canton, Ohio castings plant in 1953. Seeking a reason for reopening a five-year wage contract, the U.A.W. claimed a safety violation at Canton, then the supplier of all the rear axle shafts used in Ford cars and trucks. The U.A.W. held the unionists out five weeks, forcing Ford to shut down across the nation, grant the union a big pension fund increase. The Michigan Employment Security Commission ruled that the Michigan workers were involved in the Canton strike and so were ineligible for unemployment...