Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until the new farms started producing beef and beans and until the new houses were built, Grau had a more immediate problem in keeping wages and living costs (up 275% since prewar) in line. Another poser: how to keep the Communist tail from wagging the Cuban...
Toolmaker & Poet. A college senior, a Chicago toolmaker named Edwin Dzingle, the tail gunner of the B-29 that dropped the first bomb, a Texas farmer with a drawl as wide as the Panhandle, discussed the problem earnestly with Albert Einstein, Henry Wallace, Harold E. Stassen, Congressman Jerry Voorhis, Senator Brien McMahon, Harold Ickes, Archibald MacLeish, and Joseph E. Davies, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. Citizen Dzingle sounded every inch a toolmaker; Einstein plowed shyly and awkwardly through his lines. Only one of the 21-man panel was unconcerned. Said 85-year-old Samuel Gould: "I've seen...
...spectre of measles and fevers of unidentified origin continued to make life miserable for Bolles. The two heavy crews he sent to Annapolis had collectively lost four men more before they ever reached the starting line. With the dice loaded against them, the Varsity boat brought up the tail end in the nine-way regatta (won by Wisconsin) and suffered the ignominy of trailing both M.I.T. and Princeton, their meat of a week before. In their race, the Jayvees did a little better, finishing seventh in the field, while at Cambridge the stay-at-home 150's walked away from...
They tried batting left handed. They tried batting loft handed with one hand. They tried running backwards. They tried running backwards on one leg. Eventually they got around to using the bat as a billiard cue and fielding the ball from the tail...
...months the excitement along Broadway had been mounting. At the tail end of a lively but not very lustrous season there loomed one of the brightest theatrical events in years: England's world-famous Old Vic was arriving for six weeks of repertory, with such topnotchers in its cast as Laurence Olivier (TIME, April 8) and Ralph Richardson (TIME, Dec. 31). On the morning last month when the box office first opened, double lines of ticket buyers stretched for blocks; and by the evening last week when the first curtain rose on Henry IV, Part I, the advance sale...