Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fats Domino, a chubby torpedo with the hands of a rake and the voice of a raspy chain saw, deposited his 300-pound frame at the piano and began to play. They turned on the house-lights. Fats, in a red silk toga, had been known to inspire hysteria...
...Michigan's annual Conference on the Economic Outlook last week, 108 topflight experts assembled for one of the year's most important business gatherings and gave their forecasts for 1958. As usual, the opinions spread across the full spectrum. But while in past years the great majority saw nothing except boom on boom, this time the prevailing forecast was for a downturn-though a minor one. Of 68 conference members answering a poll on 1958 business, most agreed that business would slip a bit until well into 1958, with an upturn starting late in the year. Only five...
...Communist General Labor Confederation (CGIL) and onetime (1949-57) president of the party-line World Federation of Trade Unions; of a heart attack; while dedicating a new labor hall at Lecco, near Milan. Di Vittorio strongarmed his CGIL into an 8,000,000-member postwar political powerhouse, saw it dwindle to 3,000,000, become well-matched by Italy's free unions. Last year he publicly denounced the "intervention of foreign troops" in Hungary, was branded a "class collaborationist" and bounced from the WFTU presidency...
...strange, sweet smell, so faint that it could scarcely be realized. Rufus had never known such stillness. Their little sounds, as they approached, vanished upon it like the infinitesimal whisperings of snow, falling on open water. There was his head, his arms; suit; there he was ... He saw him much more clearly than he had ever seen him before; yet his face looked unreal, as if he had just been shaved by a barber...
...couple of comments, made by the head coaches of the two squads shortly after the game ended, tell the essentially simple story of the contest. "Brown was good," John Yovicsin said firmly; "Harvard was hurting," Alva Kelley replied. No one of the 17,000-odd fans who saw the game is likely to dispute either of these remarks...