Word: shea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dave Beck, the Teamster wagon has been a perfect vehicle for a ride to power. At its first convention in 1903, with Niagara Falls roaring in the background, the 50,000-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters selected as its first president a 295-lb. cutthroat named Cornelius Shea, who eventually was packed off to Sing Sing for stabbing his mistress 27 times (Shea bungled the job -the girl lived). Next, in 1907, came Irish-born Dan Tobin, who was to hold office for 45 astonishing years. Fond of boasting that he ran the union with only two staffers, Tobin came...
...Ohio bends into West Virginia, the advantages of cheap power and good water, plus a vast underground block of salt 200 miles long and more than 100 ft. thick, have attracted scores of chemical companies: Columbia?Southern Chemical Corp., Koppers Co., Shea Chemical Corp., Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., Monsanto Chemical. Farther along, other companies are spending over $300 million to make everything from jet-engine parts to autos and electronic tubes...
...that big (6 ft. 3 in.) Norman Wood was in trouble. Brewer went to help, found himself pulled under water and fighting for his life against Wood's frenzied embrace. Brewer freed himself and surfaced; Wood was nowhere to be seen. Recruit Thomas Doorhy dragged Donald O'Shea to sounder footing, then left to help others. That was the last time anybody saw O'Shea alive. Recruit John Edward Martinez pulled Charles Reilly shoreward to chest-deep water. Reilly gasped: "I'm O.K." Martinez left him-and Reilly disappeared. Recruit Joseph Anthony Moran (son of Actress...
...police searched his house in Dedham and returned with a van load of 1500 library books, discovered in barrels in his cellar. When Williams was out on bail, the superintendent of Widener, John Shea, found what the Cambridge Police had missed: 800 more books...
...spirited effect, while Perry Como (in a reissue) transforms God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen into a queasy dirge. The curtain on Victor's celebration is rung down by Christmas, Christmas, with chorus, chimes and strings uniting to provide a festive background while the bass voice of George Beverly Shea repeats "Chrishmush, Chrishmush...