Word: stooped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Motors has the same type of system at its Dayton, Ohio Frigidaire plant. For example, an ex-punch-press operator who got tuberculosis of the spine checks for leaks in refrigerator units passing through a tank of water, a job that does not require him to stoop or twist...
...More Try. In Seattle, Leon Hubert Harent, 80, a stoop-shouldered invalid barely able to walk, handed a post office clerk a holdup note demanding $1,000, was arrested on the spot, admitted that he had been in prison for robberies almost continuously since 1894, added sadly: "I'm not very handy at anything; I've never been much of a success...
...began with a success so small that his predecessors would have been humiliated to stoop to it. Forming a coalition with Republicans, he ousted Red-lining Vito Marcantonio from his congressional seat. But De Sapio also took another step -and fell flat on his face. In the 1950 mayoralty race, De Sapio backed Ferdinand Pecora, a born loser, against Vincent Impellitteri, who won easily. Tammany's impotence was measured by the fact that it could not even beat Impy, an insurgent organization man with no machine...
...author of the article should care for his own principles more and his indignation less. Did it not occur to you what a shameful act this article was? This is a sad precedent when we amongst ourselves stoop to such irrelevant and contemptible weapons. The essence of freedom is privacy. America will never be secure in her freedom while liberals fight back with the same weapons with which McCarthy apparently corrupts us all. The particular injustices of McCarthy are alarming (though America is pretty used to such), but far less so than his general method of politics that abolishes...
...orphaned girl. Grace scrounged food and vitamins for Ronnie, gave him the love he needed and dreamed of sending him one day to the U.S. But Ronnie coughed more and more, and then developed even more alarming symptoms. He began walking with an old man's stoop, and, when he dropped a toy, he would fall to the floor before he could pick it up. An orthopedic surgeon gave Grace the answer: Ronnie had tuberculosis of the spine. Only a delicate bone graft could save him. Grace Kim made her decision...