Word: tilling
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...police commissioner begged Steel to give up his spectacularly successful amateur detective work so that the police would have a chance to catch some crooks themselves ("Heroism at its greatest! To suffer silently without reward"), Stainless reluctantly agreed, rented a room in a quiet boarding house to rest. Not till three weeks later did he realize that his fellow boarders were all crooks, finally went to work and bagged them...
...life momentarily in the second quarter: after a 52-yd. run by Lew Carpenter, and a Layne pass that put the Lions on the Cleveland four, Detroit's Bowman plunged over for the Lions' only touchdown. That was their last gasp. The Browns went for Layne mercilessly till he seemed almost out of action. A long pass by Graham, intended for Cleveland End Darrell Brewster, was knocked out of Brewster's hands but alertly grabbed in midair by Cleveland Halfback Ray Renfro. That set up the Browns' fourth touchdown, and the fifth followed when Renfro made...
...Wolfson, who is now waging a proxy war to take over the $999 million Montgomery Ward Co., bought control of Washington's Capital Transit Co. five years ago for $2,100,000. Since then Wolfson has paid out $5,911,200 in dividends from cash in the till. As a result, the stock has soared, bringing Wolfson and his associates a whopping $4,378,320 profit on the stock alone...
...considered the weakest part of his character. Few of his poems pass muster today; they are the lush, overripe productions of a man who got "a curious joy" (a "kick" is the modern word; out of being "spendthrift of my own genius" and let himself "drift with every passion till my soul / Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play...
...YORK DAILY NEWS: The Republicans didn't begin to put in their best licks till about three weeks ago, with President Eisenhower having to be prodded to roll up his sleeves. If he had slugged sooner, oftener and harder, his party would have kept and strengthened its control of Congress...