Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months of poking through the scandals of Top Teamster Jimmy Hoffa and his pals, the Senate rackets committee thought it had uncovered all possible varieties of union rough stuff and muscle flexing from A (for assault with a deadly weapon) down to Y (for yelling from the witness stand-see Investigations). But it missed the last letter, until Z turned up around the House of Representatives recently in the form of a hard-boiled Hoffa lobbyist. His name: Sidney Zagri...
...transition came in World War. II with nitrogen mustard-synthesized for use as a poison gas. Cancer researchers began testing it. found that it killed cells in rough proportion to their rate of reproduction. Though it killed the cancer cells faster than the normal, it was still highly poisonous, could be given (by intravenous injection) only in small doses. And eventually the cancer cells became resistant to it. History has sadly repeated itself with scores of chemicals of this class (technically "alkylating agents") developed since. About 20 are credited with definite but limited usefulness...
Wasted Whiskers. There is again much of the old nostalgia. Back on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Golden recalls, the old folks would mutter, "A klug zu Columbus'n" whenever a boy got a bloody nose or the steam was not hot enough in the Turkish baths. Rough translation: "Columbus should have broken his head before he discovered America." But there were consolations. "For 2^ plain" a lad could buy a large glass of clear Seltzer. Flavoring cost a penny more, but sometimes he could persuade the counterman to "put a little on the top" for nothing. Jewish...
...Take. A sinewy (6 ft., 175 Ibs.), hard-muscled man with a slightly bulbous nose and brown hair etched with grey, Blough had not only devised the industry's new policy but would have the most say in whatever settlement the steel industry would make. He is no rough-and-tumble, up-from-the-mill steelman but a lawyer who got into steel via a Wall Street firm, thoroughly learned the business by hard-slogging homework...
...attack is not privilege itself, but privilege in the hands of those who had betrayed the revolution, who fed the country a "dogmatism . . . which corroded all ethical values." Scorned-as the author clearly felt that he and an entire nation had been scorned-his unnamed heroine retreats to the rough-hewn comradeship of the stage. After a triumphant performance in a theater crowded with her enemies, she collapses on her sofa in melodramatic tears, unable to solve the curt, inexorable questions that Djilas himself could not really answer: "Why? How? Whither...