Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every big industrial state, labor organized down to the ward and precinct level. The A.F.L. and President A. F. Whitney's Railroad Trainmen worked side by side with the lieutenants of C.I.O.'s Jack Kroll (who had predicted Harry Truman's election right along). They combed registration lists, personally called on unregistered voters...
Smooth, slick-haired and hardworking, Charley Binaggio, 39, moved into control of Kansas City's North Side, a riverfront area of dumpy houses and taverns which had spawned Pendergastery. He quickly expanded into other wards. The Kansas City Star attacked Binaggio as a product of old North Side hoodlumism; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch linked him with the Capone race-wire syndicate. But with last week's election, Charley Binaggio became the Democratic boss-apparent of Kansas City. Charley characterized the victory as "a complete answer to the baseless and malicious charges made about me by the press...
...Yonkel the Jink ("A jink is a fellow who used to be a jinx and graduated"), the "hardest luck guy on the East Side." Dozens of people, reports Billy, "make a living by checking his selections and betting the opposite . . . When he discusses past achievements it's always 'The day I beat Army' or 'The night I knock out Graziano.' " Billy tells how Yonkel was once outjinxed by one Timothy Whitehead, who had lost $5,000,000 in the '29 crash. "That's diffrunt," said Yonkel, "winnin' from dat kinda fella...
...pattern of the game was a master stroke. When the Brown ends hung back, the Crimson swept the flanks; when they crashed, Gannon and Shafer jump-passed and bucked for twenty yard gains. Above all, Harvard trapped. On fully half the plays Will Davis pulled out of the weak side and hit a gullible Bruin guard. The rest of the line blocked solidly and a stream of Crimson backs poured through a hole in the strong side...
...this to the side, the fact remains that students in one of the College's larger fields will get tutorial for credit in their Senior year, if they are honors candidates, and that can make a big difference to those students. It can make a big difference, that is, if the Economics Department takes its tutorial seriously and does not let it turn into "advising," which has happened in some other departments, and if students take it seriously and do not treat it as if it were peripheral to their course work, which has happened throughout the College. Half-hearted...