Word: splendids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Music with Meals. As chaplain of the 1st Marines, Sporrer saw some of the bitterest fighting in Korea, shared the misery of the marines in their bloody, icy, splendid retreat from the Chosen Basin. There he built up his grievances against Army officers whom he accused of incompetence and claimed were "corrupted with a luxurious love of the comforts of life as well as with the lack of courage, bravery and interest in men that are expected . . ." He charged that supplies of such things as "delicate crackers, cookies, cheeses, also vast quantities of beer" being hauled to the front made...
...last) appearance. It violently attacked social and economic conditions under the banner heading: "Clothing, shelter and homes can wait-but food cannot." The Voz Social editorial pointed out that through the offices of ministerial employees, it was a simple matter for black marketeers to obtain import licenses for splendid American convertibles, while farmers were unable to get licenses for tractors; that the building of hospitals and low-price houses had been halted by lack of material, while luxurious apartment houses and private mansions mushroomed in Madrid. Barcelona had not read that kind of talk for years. The 50,000 copies...
...grab-and-hit tactics (clutching with his right glove while pounding with his left). But Matthews was taking care of himself. He boxed with Marquess of Queensberry manners, but kept thumping powerful lefts & rights to Murphy's body. Later, when Murphy continued to bore in with a splendid disregard of the punishment he'd taken, Matthews showed that he has more than one specialty by jabbing punishing lefts to Murphy's head. Meanwhile, Matthews had been absorbing Murphy's best punches without too great damage, had quickly solved the puzzle of Murphy's windmill style...
...father, he decided to raise it into the finest steer there ever was; last week, his year-old, 1,000-lb., underslung steer "Shorty" won the grand championship at the San Antonio Livestock Show. After a San Antonio brewer bought Shorty for $21,000. * 13-year-old Cattleman Tatsch splendid in a satin shirt and cowpoke boots, took a bow in the center ring, announced he would use the money to buy a ranch...
...bustle of sorting and dispatching the daily mail, no one would ever miss the man who slipped out for a few beers or a movie. Before long the word got around Boston's pool halls and political clubs that the long, grimy building down by South Station offered splendid opportunities for anyone with the urge to cheat the Government out of a paycheck...