Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sprung from the fact that Reagan's family seldom grazed any place very long. He was born in Tampico, 111., one of many Midwest towns that attracted Ronald's Irish father, John Reagan, a Willy Loman type who may not have been the world's best shoe salesman but held all records at the bar. Reagan's mother, Nelle, of Scots-English blood, was a churchly woman who taught Ronnie and his brother Neil, now 58, to read before they entered the first grade...
...housewife in the Titusville neighborhood points out four whiskey houses in the block-long alley behind her home. What must be the largest Negro shoe-shine stand in the state does a brisk business in liquor. A factory worker estimates that there are 20 whiskey houses in a 12-block area around his plant. A hippie who works as a part-time mail clerk for an insurance firm prefers four smaller houses near the sprawling University of Alabama Medical Center -- they have juke boxes. But as for reliable estimates of the total number, one Negro professional man who, like...
...unglamorous blonde of the title is a pudding-faced little pretty (Hana Brejchová) housed with other unfortunates in a shoe-factory town where the girls outnumber the boys 16 to 1. To boost morale and expedite production, the factory manager gets some foot-slogging soldiers assigned to the area, most of them doggy, dumpy and married. The blonde succumbs by default to a callow young piano player (Vladimír Pucholt) who has all but forgotten her when she shows up, a week or so later, at his parents' apartment in Prague...
...season for Alaska. Chicken, for example, has had no rain since early May. Though lightning started most of the blazes, the woods are so parched that any ignition will do. The Goldstream fire 30 miles west of Fairbanks was started by sparks from a train's hot brake shoe, and an artillery shell fired in military maneuvers is believed to have started the Salcha fire...
Waiting for that other shoe to drop, Canadians last week counted the dam age from their first major rail strike since 1950. Estimates were that it had cost $ 15 million a day in vanished wages, railroad revenues and losses to business. It had isolated for a time such areas as Prince Edward Island, which depends largely on railroad-owned ferry service to the mainland; it had also caused monumental traffic jams in Montreal, where people who normally use commuter trains flocked to work in cars. Most important, the lack of train service had doubled demands for passenger and cargo space...