Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goose" Tatum's basketball team, the Harlem Trotters. But the first Trotter game drew only 1,200 fans to Sydney's White City Stadium (capacity: 7,000). Leo bawled into the microphone: "If what I've done is a crime, then hang me!" Fans hooted back: "Take your checkbook and go home to America!" Western Promotions forthwith announced that they had had enough...
...Machinists, which shut down Capital Airlines over demands for an hourly raise of 42?. The Machinists have also threatened to strike Trans World Airlines and Eastern. All six airlines-American, Capital, Eastern, Pan American, T.W.A., United-have agreed to put on extra flights along routes they also serve to take care of the passengers of any struck line. The lines plan to make no profit on the overflow traffic. They will turn over all earnings, after taking out operating expenses, to the strikebound line. The pact's major immediate effect: competitors United, American, Eastern, T.W.A. will give Capital enough...
...Received non-Italian cardinals in a daily round of special audiences to take advantage of their presence in Rome. One of the first and most cordially received was the cardinal in the hottest spot of all -Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, a close friend of the Pope...
...night in 1881. A couple of hours later, his mother rose from her bed and hurried with her husband and her first son to the little parish church of St. John. The sleepy priest grumbled at the lateness of the hour, but they insisted-"Do you want us to take him all the way home again without baptism?"-and that night Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli became a member of the church he would rule...
...Pope Pius XII was fearful of forcing the Catholics in China into deeper schism by excommunicating the Chinese bishops who are making valid but unauthorized consecrations, hence went no farther than deploring their action in one of his last encyclicals. Insiders are waiting to see whether. Pope John will take a tougher line...