Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maclntyre's successor will have to make some cash stick. Hall will be helped by the fact that Eastern has just completed a Maclntyre-planned $237 million refinancing plan that will enable it to take delivery on 40 new Boeing trijet 727s next year. Also in Eastern's favor is the recent decision by the Civil Aeronautics Board to remove Northeast Airlines from the New York-Miami run. Though the CAB order is now being tested in court, the chances are good that within a few months Eastern will have only one competitor, rather than...
Austin has also managed to make Engstrom into a real slap-stick figure who does not fit in with the play, G. Quay Quenel does not act the part badly, but the part should have been totally different. That Manders can be taken in by such a buffoon exceeds belief. Etain O'Malley is better as Engstrom's daughter, Regina, especially when she remains sprightly but mute...
West Side cynics scornfully pointed out that any robber who couldn't handle a stick shift deserved his ignominy. Not so the workers who looted the car. Who, it was asked, wouldn't have done the same? But what of the looters who looted the looters? They, alas, are among the dishonored...
...flashed down the ice so fast that the Montreal defensemen were caught flatfooted. McNeill drew Montreal's Charlie Hodge out of the goal. Then he passed to Howe-and Gordie rammed it into the net so hard that he slid off balance past the goal with his stick raised high in triumph over his head. For ten minutes, 15,027 fans whooped it up, showering the ice with assorted debris -soiled cups, programs, fedoras, part of an apple, and a baked potato. Howe flashed a weary smile. "I feel ten pounds lighter," he sighed...
...night before may turn defensively argumentative. The cops, he usually claims, exaggerated his alcoholic difficulties. If he was lucky enough to escape a serious accident, and cautious enough not to submit his telltale breath to a drunk-ometer's measurement, he can often make his story stick...