Word: staying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they seem." Sitting at the bedside, Jimmy Wechsler noted that Reuther's face was dead white, that he paused from time to time as the pain grew acute. The reporter remembered, nervously, that he had been instructed to leave after 15 minutes. But Reuther asked him to stay on because "this thing doesn't hurt so much when I talk...
...chambers. Just three weeks ago, Judge Goldsborough had slapped fines of $1,420,000 on John L. Lewis and the U.M.W. It took him only a few minutes to issue a temporary order against the brotherhoods. Hours later the word went out to the nation's railroaders to stay on their jobs. The trains still ran, under Army supervision...
...shortage," cried Harry Truman last week, "is almost a fatal one." He told the National Conference on Family Life a bitter little story about a man and his wife, their baby and dog who could find no place to live in Washington and weren't even allowed to stay in their car on a parking lot. Said Harry Truman: "Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of this country as is Wall Street andthe railroads, or any one of them...
...hear what frantic Trumpeter Gillespie and his 15 boppers (including four other trumpets) had to say. Whatever else, bebop is screechingly loud. It is also breathlessly fast, with some biting dissonance and shifty rhythms, with the brass blaring out accents up on top. Pieces like Two Bass Hit and Stay On It didn't sound like "moldy fig" music (boppese for "decadent" Dixieland jazz); but, except for Dizzy's wild, fast-riding solos, they did sound like something Duke Ellington had thought better of a long time...
...flails the whip. Arcaro's only other serious rival is the West Coast's favorite Johnny Longden, who is 38. They all have slightly different styles. Longden, for example, is famed as a "whoop-te-do" rider: a jockey who likes to get out front and stay there. Atkinson rides with his stirrups even; Arcaro uses what is called the "ace deuce" technique, in which the right stirrup is about two inches higher than the left. Says Arcaro: "I don't agree with the idea of it myself, but it seems to suit me." About 75% of present-day jockeys...