Word: roundly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the obstacles of missing records and feeble memories, the committee doggedly piled up in its first round of hearings in 1957 a record gamy enough to persuade the A.F.L.-C.I.O. to expel the Teamsters Brotherhood from the united labor movement. Since then, the committee has uncovered a lot more of the Hoffa record. At one point during the hearings. Jimmy Hoffa, an aggressively contemptuous witness, told the committee: "I think my record speaks for itself." It surely does. And on the basis of that record, the committee documents several damning general charges with scores of specifically detailed charges...
...rained on the wedding day, but, as every sentimental newsman reported, the instant Steven and pale but happy Anne-Marie were joined in marriage, the sun began to shine. Bride and groom came to the church steps for another round of news pictures. When Governor Rockefeller was asked by photographers to kiss the bride, he answered, "This is Anne-Marie's and Steve's day, not mine," and stepped back into the church. Pastor Olav Gautestad spread his benison even over the unflagging newsmen and photographers. It was encouraging, he said, that in this day, when "most youths...
...whatever I come to"). Then he set out to take Bassey apart. When Bassey did not come to him, Counter-Puncher Moore went to Bassey, blasting home occasional shots to the body with such force that the Nigerian's gasps were heard in the balcony. By the tenth round, Bassey's left eye was cut, and his right eye was beginning to close. Moore opened up with left hooks and right uppercuts that had the challenger tottering backward in a grotesque little dance. At the bell, Bassey weakly raised Moore's hand, then refused to come...
...MASTERPIECE need not lie behind locked doors to be effectively hidden from the public at large. The Laughing Child, one of Frans Hals's most engaging pictures, hangs on public view the year round in Cincinnati's Taft Museum. The museum in itself is a small masterpiece of selection and display, should be a mecca for the entire Midwest -yet only about 100 people visit it on an average day. (Out-of-towners automatically head for the more famed Cincinnati Art Museum instead...
Rockefeller got blooded in venture capital by helping round up $3,500,000 to refinance young Eastern Air Lines in 1938. He saved the day for one of his boyhood heroes, President Eddie Rickenbacker, who almost lost control to a bump-Rickenbacker group. Rockefeller took 24,400 shares of Eastern at $9; each is now worth $155 on a pre-split basis, and Rockefeller, with $3,970,000 worth, is Eastern's biggest stockholder. In 1939 an unknown plane designer, J. S. McDonnell, came to him with some paper plans for an advanced type of fighter. Rockefeller...