Word: shanking
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...Peter, or one of the boys, performs the strategic steps in boot production. The inner sole is tacked to the bottom of the "last" and then trimmed to fit it perfectly. Next, the upper is fitted to the "last" with repeated stretching and tacking. From there, the steel sole shank and outer soles are applied and the heel is built up. Finally a corrugated rubber outer sole is applied and the finishing touches of grooving the heels and waterproofing all exposed stitching take place. The finished product is a perfectly fitted, ox-blood colored boot, resplendent with brass lacing hooks...
This week Middleweight Rocky Graziano-who outdraws any fighter but Joe Louis in Madison Square Garden-admitted that he had been offered $100.000 to throw a fight. The offer was made in Graziano's dressing room two weeks before his scheduled bout with second-rater Ruben ("Cowboy") Shank...
According to the wise boys, an "East Side syndicate" had bet $125,000 on Cowboy Shank at 4 to 1. The gamblers, who were not content to take the small bettors' honest risks (see below), stood to win $500,000 if Rocky lost...
...Metropolis. But in night-living Manhattan, where midnight is the shank of the evening, it was a different story. Moved out of the nightspots before the clock struck. New Yorkers and the hordes of visitors (including thousands of servicemen on pass) swarmed into the streets. Manhattan's sensitive transportation, from scabby subways to rachitic taxicabs, were strained to the limit. Its streets were jammed for hours past midnight by drunks who had downed too many too fast, by soberer folks who thought they had no place else to go. Speakeasies began to spring up, and Manhattan's policemen...
John Dos Passes started traveling in his bassinette. Born in Chicago (1896), he was taken to Mexico City by his parents the same year. Since then, he has covered every continent except Australia, on every conveyance from a Volga River steamer to a dromedary-and very often on Shank's mare. Meanwhile he has published 18 books. (Best known: U.S.A., a three-panel novel of U.S. life and character circa World...