Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stab in the Back." The left-wing leaders did not need Wallace's praise; they had a tight grip on most of the 948 delegates (representing 600,000 members). But they used it to strengthen their attack on U.E.'s small group of right-wingers, led by James B. Carey, one of the U.E.'s founders and onetime president. Slim Jim Carey, now the C.I.O.'s secretary-treasurer, knew that he had not the slimmest chance of unhorsing the top trio, but he carried his fight to the floor. Matles and Fitzgerald gave Carey the full...
With Jim Kenary, Chip Gannon, Leo Flynn, and Chuck Roche alternating on the pitching end, the Crimson aerial tactics were only moderately successful. Jim Noonan contributed the most sparkling catch of the afternoon, a one-handed stab without breaking his stride...
Canadians didn't like it. In Ottawa, a woman paraded on Sparks Street with a sign reading: BREADKNIVES STAB HOUSEWIVES. In Toronto other housewives wired Prime Minister King that decontrol of flour was "an unforgivable crime against the people." An Ottawa councilman cried: "We are losing the peace. ... It is such things as this that give rise to Communism." Labor organizations warned that higher prices would inevitably mean higher wages. Sean Edwin, a Montreal Gazette columnist, cracked: "If the ... trend continues, dollars to doughnuts will be even money...
Whether these stylocrats and their emulators really make fashions, or merely make people like them, is a delicate question. Last week in Paris, Mrs. Snow made a stab at answering it: "The editors must recognize fashions while they are still a thing of the future. The dressmakers create them, but without these magazines, the fashions would never be established or accepted...
Nick of Time. In Point Pleasant, W.Va., despondent Victor Bradshaw tried to stab himself to death, got the knife part way in, fell down dead of a heart attack...