Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nicola Sacco, a shoe-worker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a fish-peddler, were arrested on Brockton street car. They were both Italian immigrants and admitted anarchists. They were soon charged with a double murder and payroll robbery committed three weeks earlier in South Braintree, Mass...
...since Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging spectacular has the world organization been so galvanized. There is no doubt that the 131 members of the General Assembly will admit Peking when the issue comes to a vote, probably next week. The drama revolves around the question: Will the U.S. succeed in its "Two China" policy, or will Taiwan be thrown...
...best ambiguous. Heralded for relaxing the prison-camp atmosphere that prevailed under Stalin, he was also bitterly blamed for recurring failures in the economy and agriculture. To most Westerners, too, his record is mixed. A shrewd man who carefully preserved his peasant touch, an unabashed ham who pounded his shoe on a desk at the United Nations in 1960, he was the first Soviet ruler to admit a touch of humanism into Communism, and a leading proponent of peaceful coexistence between East and West. But he knew how to use power and often did so ruthlessly, as in his attacks...
...ankles while she was dancing. With her brother Gil, 37, she whacked away at a pair of tights and some oversized boots, spliced the two with pins and clips and, after a week of adjustment here and there, sewed them together. The creation was snapped up by Brown Shoe Company of St. Louis, which spent a year and a half testing it on 400 of its own employees. In troduced last month, Pan-T-Boots quickly sold out in New York, San Francisco and St. Louis...
...reason was made clear at a series of hearings held by New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams just before Congress recessed two weeks ago. One witness, New York Shoe Salesman Murray Finkelstein, recounted how he piled up pension credits for 19 years. Then, last year, the store where he worked went out of business. Now he must work for 15 more years before he can draw a pension under his new employer's plan. "I will have to be 75 before I can retire," he told the committee. "I've had a heart attack...