Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sole Jurisdiction. In 1952 Paul S. Russell, a nonunion electrician from Decatur, Ala., filed suit against the United Auto Workers for $50,000 damages. He charged that U.A.W. picket lines prevented him from driving to work at Decatur's Wolverine Tube Division of Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Co. plant, sued for five weeks' wages and punitive damages. The Alabama Supreme Court, reversing the lower court, ordered a trial. A jury awarded Russell...
...hour hand of the clock high on the wall of the National Assembly crept past 3, the hour of final reckoning arrived for the Fourth Republic. In hushed silence the Deputies watched General Charles de Gaulle in a single-breasted grey suit stride to the podium, heard him proclaim in less than seven minutes the terms on which he had accepted the summons to power...
Hide Whips. Jerry, now resplendent in a redlined black suit trimmed with ocelot, had an explanation for that too: "I guess you could call the mix-up a technical hitch." He was not really a bigamist, he added, because his second marriage, not his third, was illegal. It was this way: "I was 14 when I first got married. My wife was too old for me; she was 17. Then I met Jane. One day she said she was going to have my child. Her brothers were hunting me with hide whips. I was real worried. So I married...
...hand, included in his act a cautious display of rope twirling. Also in the spirit of things was leggy Maurine Neuberger, wife of Oregon's junior Senator Richard Neuberger, who for the party's fashion show slithered out on stage in a figure-hugging one-piece bathing suit, with companion checked beach coat...
...knots the F-100F Super Sabre pulled out of its dive and rocketed upward. Up went the needle on the accelerometer or "g meter," which gauges the piling up of gravity forces. In a "g suit" hooked up to an automatic air-compressor system, I felt a giant's fist pressing into my belly, two pairs of giant hands around my thighs and calves, to retard the flow of blood to the feet and reduce the risk of blackout. Belatedly I remembered to try the "M1 maneuver"-tensing the abdominal muscles to reduce the blood drainage still more...