Word: slugs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FIRST ALUMINUM BEER CANS in U.S. will be marketed by Hawaii Brewing Corp. in the islands. Seamless cans are made by punching single aluminum slug, weigh 50% less than "tin" cans...
...serious moments insists that "the degree of a people's civilization is related to their sugar consumption-less civilized people use less sugar." The man: Julio Lobo (meaning wolf), 59, who bears the scars of his lifelong love affair with sugar. Entrepreneur Lobo carries a .38 caliber slug imbedded in his skull, put there by a Cuban gangster ostensibly bent on robbery. He has had three heart attacks. Yet he works a 14-hour day, and spends so much time inspecting his far-flung properties that he has a Cadillac specially equipped for sleeping. For his trouble, the king...
...were Fox's notions of the principles which should guide journalism. To Post executives, fretting at the paper's wild machinations, Fox had a stock answer: "No one has ever measured the capacity of the American people to absorb manure." John Fox, yardstick in hand and a slug of bourbon within reach, gave it a try-and drove the Post into bankruptcy court. One of those pulling the plug on Fox was Friend-Turned-Enemy Bernard Goldfine...
...stringless yoyo, so delightedly that I did not notice when we began to slow down. By inertial force, the sinker glided forward from my upraised left hand. My grab for it was defeated by the shoulder harness. Over the hot mike I warned Brett: "There's a lead slug corning over your left shoulder." He looked up, saw the sinker gliding past his head in slow motion, bided his time and coolly upped the plane's nose. The movement dropped the sinker gently into his lap. As he passed it back, he also gave me a short piece...
...Hire. In Glen Burnie, Md., Loren Staples, 4, watched film funnies on TV for a while, then hurried off to a bedroom, climbed a chair, got daddy's pistol and, returning to the TV show, pumped a .38-caliber slug into...