Word: shoehorning
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...Shoehorn for His Hat. Clay detailed his diet for newsmen ("Muslim bean soup, Eee-gyptian brown rice, Arabian string beans"), refused to pose for photographs standing alongside the shorter (by 2½ in.) and lighter (by 14 Ibs.) Patterson. "If I did," he said, "nobody would come to see the fight...
Those who went saw a slaughter, the most lopsided contest since lions lunched at the Colosseum. "I am going to punish him," Clay had said contemptuously. "I am going to beat him so badly that he'll need a shoehorn to get his hat on again." Cassius obviously is a man of his word. In the first round he was so busy taunting his opponent ("White American!") that he neglected to throw a punch and Patterson won the round. It was the only round...
...place to shoehorn into at the moment is Shepheard's, a fantasia of golden Pharaohs, gilded sphinxes, palm trees and desert tents, which is supposed to suggest the famed old outpost of empire in Cairo that burned down in 1952. Shepheard's, which opened last December in the Drake Hotel, is not a club-though that is not to say it is easy to get a table. It is also not a pure discotheque; a combo of drums, bass and xylophone plays along with the records...
Bent Basement. The Rent Act of 1957 virtually lifted all controls and enabled Rachman to shoehorn tenants into his flats at whatever prices the traffic would bear. He also showed talent for "bending the basement," that is, converting cellar space into cribs for prostitutes or into nightclubs. The 1959 Street Offences Act, which drove prostitutes off London pavements, brought him another windfall, for the girls would pay more for rooms than even the desperate West Indians. In one house, seven prostitutes were charged $10 per day, payable every day at noon, or $25,000 annually, for a house valued...
...much to blame, so is overcrowding. Every day, 36 million Japanese ride the trains, 4,200,000 in Tokyo alone. At rush hours, 350 commuters jam into cars designed for 100, helped by brawny students who are paid 150 yen (42?) an hour to stand on the platform and shoehorn people inside. When the doors open, the scrimmage begins; cracked ribs are not uncommon. In such circumstances, the passenger's first concern is for his safety, not for his packages-or even his clothes. In fact, so many commuters lose their shoes fighting their way off the trains that...